Boy aged 10 dead and dozens hurt as Russian rocket strikes Kharkiv

The explosion left a crater in a city street, just metres away from an apartment building. Debris and rubble littered the street

Rescuers look for survivors in the rubble after the rocket attack on Kharkiv (Ukrainian Police Press Office via AP)

A Russian missile strike killed a 10-year-old boy and injured two dozen other people on Friday in Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine officials said, a day after a strike in the same region killed at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months.

Reporters saw emergency crews pulling the boy’s body from the rubble of a building after the early morning attack. He was wearing pyjamas with a Spiderman design.