Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine, Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv region, Uman and Dnipro

Russia launched a barrage of long-range cruise missiles at Ukraine in the early hours of Friday morning, according to Ukrainian officials. 

At around 4 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET), 23 missiles were launched from Russian aircraft in the Caspian Sea area, along with two drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Twenty-one of the missiles were intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses, it said. 

But missiles did hit the central Ukrainian cities of Uman, in the Cherkasy region south of Kyiv, and Dnipro.

Uman: Officials say the death toll in Uman stands at 17, including three children. Eighteen people have been wounded. 

According to Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko, there were 46 apartments inside one of the buildings that were hit, of which 27 were completely destroyed. He said it may take a day to clear all the rubble.

Emergency workers at the site “have almost finished clearing the ground floor [of the building]” and will continue combing the building, according to Yulia Norovkova, a press officer for the Cherkasy region state emergency service. 

CNN also spoke to a local woman, Liuda, whose friend lived on the eighth floor. When she heard the building had been hit, Liuda rushed there to find that her friend had survived, but her friend’s husband had been hospitalized and their two daughters, aged 7 and 13, were still missing. 

Dnipro: Ukrainian authorities have given more details about a 31-year-old woman who died, along with her 2-year-old child, after a Russian missile strike on the city of Dnipro on Friday morning.

Serhii Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the woman had moved to her parents’ house due to the war.

“She thought it would be safer … But now it’s in ashes,” he said. The woman’s parents are both hospitalized, Lysak said.