Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin’s forces strike Zelensky’s home city as Biden declares Russia will not prevail

Russia has fired a missile on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, striking a police department and injuring at least three people, local emergency officials have reported.

The attack partially destroyed the five-storey building of the district department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the emergency services said, as well as damaging some private residences nearby.

More people were likely to be under the rubble, they added.

It comes as Mr Biden, ahead of a meeting with Mr Zelensky in the White House, said Russia “will not prevail” in its war on Ukraine.

“We stand with Ukraine, now and in the future,” Mr Biden said alongside Mr Zelensky. “Russia will not prevail. Ukraine will prevail.”

Mr Biden also pledged to support Kyiv “in its path to membership to both the EU and Nato”, though he stopped short of green-lighting Ukraine’s request to fire long-range missiles deeper into Russia.

Zelensky thanked the US for its “unwavering bipartisan support”.

US president Joe Biden is set to host a Ukraine defence group in Germany next month following talks with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Ukraine Defence Contact Group will take place on 12 October in Germany and bring together international partners to coordinate additional assistance for Ukraine.

The White House said in a statement that “President Biden is determined to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to win”.

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