At least 47 people, including five children, have been injured after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.

The attack, which began at about 1pm (10:00 GMT) local time on Sunday, hit a shopping mall and a major sports centre in the northeastern city, which is not far from the border with Russia.

Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the Saltivskyi and Nemyshlianskyi districts came under attack, with the prosecutor general saying Russia used Iskander missiles.

Seven children were among the injured with the youngest just three months old.

“Several people are in a very serious condition,” Ukrainska Pravda reported the mayor as saying.

He added that rescue teams and ambulances who responded to the call also came under fire.

“The enemy launched a cynical repeat strike on our city … leaving doctors injured,” Terekhov said.

The attack comes just a few days after at least seven people were killed and dozens injured when Russian weapons struck an apartment block in the city starting a fire.

Following Sunday’s attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated his call for Ukraine’s Western allies to allow the country to use their weapons on targets deeper inside Russia. Zelenskyy argues such a move would allow Ukraine to more effectively reduce the Russian military threat.

“All the necessary forces of the world must be brought in to stop this terror,” Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel, after officials said the attack involved at least 10 missiles.

Aljazeera