Zelensky says Russia hit university and theatre in Chernihiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that the Russian army had hit the central square of the northern city of Chernihiv including a theatre and a university, warning that there are "dead" and "wounded".

Chernihiv lies some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Kyiv towards the border with Moscow-allied Belarus.

"A Russian missile hit right in the centre of the city, in our Chernihiv," Zelensky said on Telegram.

"A square, the polytechnic university, a theatre. An ordinary Saturday, which Russia turned into a day of pain and loss. There are dead, there are wounded."