Russian missile attack kills 11 as Ukraine’s Zelensky presses Nato allies for support

A Russian missile attack in south-eastern Ukraine on June 24 killed at least 11 people, local officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Kyiv’s allies at a Nato summit to bolster Ukraine’s defence industry.

The two-wave strike killed nine in the regional capital Dnipro, said governor Serhiy Lysak, where the blast wave also showered scores of train passengers with broken glass, and damaged schools and a hospital.

Mr Lysak said 18 children were among the 153 injured.

Two people were also killed in the town of Samar, around 10km from Dnipro, the state emergencies service said. Officials did not provide details of damage there.

The rare daytime attack came as Mr Zelensky pressed Nato member states in the Netherlands to boost their investment in Ukraine’s growing defence sector and crack down on the supply of the foreign components that he said Russia uses to build its weapons.

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