Ukraine interior ministry said five people killed

Ukraine interior ministry said five people killed 

Ukraine interior minstry said five people were killed and 37 injured when a Russian missile struck the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv.

Eleven(11) children were among those wounded. A main square, university building and a theatre have reportedly been damaged.

Showing damaged cars and the square littered with debris. One body could also be briefly seen.Preisdent Volodymyr Zelensky posted the short video.

Chernihiv is near the Belarus border.

It was occupied by Russia at the beginning of the invasion, but then recaptured by Ukrainian troops.

"A Russian missile hit right in the centre of the city, in our Chernihiv. A square, the polytechnic university, a theatre," President Zelensky posted on Telegram.

He added"An ordinary Saturday, which Russia turned into a day of pain and loss. There are dead, there are wounded," 

Elsewhere, Russia has claimed or declared that a Ukrainian drone hit a military airfield in the northwest Novgorod region, causing a fire that was quickly put out.

One (1)plane was damaged but no casualties have been reported, it added.

On the alleged drone attack Ukraine hasn not commented.