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Kyiv under attack as missile strikes hit capital
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The invasion has so far killed 198 Ukrainians, the health minister says. Kyiv under attack as missile strikes hit capital
Russian forces are trying to break through the city's defenses but have so far failed.
The invasion has so far killed 198 Ukrainians, the health minister says.
Ukraine's president remains defiant, saying: 'We won't lay down our arms'.
Russia says it has captured the city of Melitopol in the south.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been giving a press briefing this morning, and said his country will triumph over Russian forces.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitchsko said a missile hit a high-rise building on the city’s southwestern outskirts. He posted an image showing a gaping hold in one side of the building that ravaged apartments on several floors.
Russian forces pounded Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv with artillery and cruise missiles on Saturday for a third day running and Russia's Interfax news agency said they had captured the southeastern city of Melitopol.
Ukrainian officials were not immediately available to comment on the fate of Melitopol and Britain's armed forces minister James Heappey cast doubt on the report, saying the city of some 150,000 people was still in Ukrainian hands.
"All of Russia's day one objectives ... and even Melitopol, which the Russians are claiming to have taken but we can't see anything to substantiate that, are all still in Ukrainian hands," he told BBC radio.
Western intelligence sources say Russian forces have encountered far stronger Ukrainian resistance than they had expected and this was significantly slowing their advances since their invasion began on Thursday.
If the Interfax report about Melitopol, which cited Russia's defence ministry, is confirmed, it would be the first significant population centre the Russians have seized.
At least 198 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed and 1,115 people wounded so far in Russia's invasion, Interfax quoted Ukraine's Health Ministry as saying. It was unclear whether the numbers comprised only civilian casualties.
