(Reuters) – One person was killed and 11 wounded in a ballistic missile strike on an apartment block in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local officials said on Tuesday, and Kyiv condemned the attack on Christmas eve.

“The monsters landed a direct hit on a four-story residential block with 32 apartments,” the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, wrote on Telegram.

A man whose body was pulled from under the rubble could not be revived by medics, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said.

“While other countries of the world celebrate Christmas, the Ukrainian people continue to suffer from Russia’s endless attacks,” Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on Telegram.

Governor Lysak posted photos of rescuers dragging through a large pile of rubble, recovering a man covered in dust and loading him into an ambulance.

“There may be people under the rubble,” he wrote before 18:00 local time (1600 GMT), more than two hours after the strike.

Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is a steel-making town with a pre-war population of more than 600,000.

Its southern part lies about 40 miles (65 km) from the nearest Russian-held territory, and it was a frequent target of Russian missile attacks throughout the war.

Russia says it never intended to target civilians, although thousands have been killed since Moscow launched its invasion in 2022.