The strikes were the latest attacks after a short ceasefire coinciding with Orthdox Easter celebrations at the weekend, during which both sides accused one another of hundreds of violations.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram that as well as the deaths in the capital, rescuers had pulled a mother and child from the ruins of a 16-storey residential building that collapsed in Kyiv’s central Podilsky district.

In the north of the capital, four emergency medical workers were among those injured as a result of repeated shelling.

In an attack on the central city of Dnipro, two people were killed and at least 10 people injured, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration, wrote on Telegram. Pictures posted online showed buildings ablaze in the city.

Elsewhere, missile and drone attacks on the southern port city of Odesa killed six people, the head of the city’s military administration Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram.

And in Kharkiv, a drone strike injured a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, an official said.