Russia-Ukraine war live: death toll rises to 52 after attack on Kharkiv village; boy, 10, and grandmother killed in new attack

Boy, 10, and his grandmother killed in airstrike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials say

Russia unleashed new airstrikes on Ukraine early on Friday, killing a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother in the city of Kharkiv and damaging grain and port infrastructure in the Odesa region in the south, Ukrainian officials said.

The boy and his grandmother were killed when Russia hit Ukraine’s second biggest city with two Iskander ballistic missiles, regional governor, Oleh Synehubov, said.

Twenty-eight others were injured, including an 11-month-old baby, he said, according to Reuters. These claims are yet to be independently verified.

The missile attack was claimed to have destroyed much of a residential building, where rescue workers searched among the rubble.

The attacks followed a Russian missile strike on Thursday in which Ukrainian officials said dozens of people were killed in the village of Hroza in north-eastern Ukraine during a gathering to mourn a fallen Ukrainian soldier.