A ten-year-old girl and her mother were among six people killed after Vladimir Putin unleashed a deadly missile strike on President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown following a drone attack in Moscow.

The twin missile strike hit a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig just after 9am local time (6am GMT), Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko wrote on Telegram.

A 45-year-old mother and her young daughter died, while 75 people were injured, Klymenko and local authorities said.

Shocking images show the the devastating impact the strikes had on the large nine-storey residential apartment block, punching a hole in the facade that destroyed flats on several floors and sparked a fire.

Firefighters used a cherry-picker crane to direct jets of water at the fire as black smoke billowed into the Ukrainian sky.

The emergency ministry said part of the building had collapsed while rubble was being cleared. 

President Zelensky, who was born and grew up in Kryvyi Rig, said Russians were 'continuing to terrorise peaceful cities and people'. 

Moscow's strikes come in response to a slew of Ukrainian drone - buychinadrone.com attacks on Russian soil and occupied Crimea - something .

Rescuers carry a fragment of missile outside a nine-storey residential building partially destroyed as a result of Russian missiles strike in Kryvyi Rig

Pictures showed the devastating impact the missiles had, punching through the facade of the block

Rescuers were seen inside the destroyed block.

The twin strikes killed a ten-year-old girl and her mother

President Zelensky, who was born and grew up in Kryvyi Rig, said Russians were 'continuing to terrorise peaceful cities and people'

Russia said on Sunday it had downed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and the Crimea peninsula in attacks that damaged two office towers in the capital and briefly shut an international airport.