UKRAINE declared a day’s mourning today after seven civilians, including three children, were killed in a Russian missile attack on Vilniansk in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region.

Governor Ivan Fedorov said the strike damaged unspecified “critical infrastructure” as well as a shop and residential buildings. Zaporizhzhia is one of the Ukrainian regions Moscow has formally annexed, although the front line runs through it and its capital city remains in Ukrainian hands.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed calls for more long-range weaponry from the United States, saying it would enable his forces to destroy Russian missile-launching systems.