KIEV, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 16 others injured in Russia's overnight attacks on Ukraine on Saturday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In the city of Poltava in central Ukraine, a missile strike caused a section of an apartment building to collapse, killing at least three people and injuring 10 others.

The State Service for Emergencies reported that 21 people had been rescued from the rubble as of Saturday morning, while search and rescue continued.

Additionally, a drone strike killed one person in the eastern city of Kharkiv, while two others died in raids in the northeastern Sumy region.

The strikes also caused damage to facilities in the northern Kiev region, the western Khmelnytsky region, and the southern Zaporizhzhia and Odesa regions. Enditem

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