Five people were killed and 20 injured in the city of Kharkiv after Russian forces fired a rocket launcher into an apartment block, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said.
The city suburb of Saltivka was hit on Sunday, destroying the civilian block, according to telegram messaging app, Synehubov.
Synehubov said Ukrainian forces had engaged in counter-attacks in the Kharkiv region, recapturing two villages fully and another partially.
A number of Russia’s main TV channels all avoided any reference to the Russian flagship which was reportedly destroyed by Ukraine.
State-run Rossiya 1, state-controlled Channel One and Gazprom-Media's NTV all kept silent on the Ukraine attack which crippled the Moskva missile cruiser, said BBC Monitoring.
So did rolling state news channel Rossiya 24.
The website of the Defence Ministry's Zvezda TV, which has thus far provided in-depth coverage of the war, also made no mention of the attack.
Given that Russian state media has parroted the Kremlin's lines throughout the war so far, the silence over Ukraine's claims could suggest a media blackout as Putin's cronies scramble to block any reference to the latest Russian failure.
The Russian flagship in the Black Sea was severely damaged after it was hit by missiles, Ukrainian officials reported this morning.
Unconfirmed reports say 300 Russian sailors who were aboard may have died.
The Kremlin claimed that the Moskva missile cruiser was seriously damaged after ammunition stocks on board blew up.
The Telegram channel, Ishchi Svoikh, which was set up by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry to tell the relatives of the Russian military about their troops, reported the cruiser sank at roughly 3am local time.
Shortly before that, the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed the crew had evacuated but Ukrainian officials say that is "far from being the case."
A Ukrainian official said the missile attack was the biggest blow to the Russian navy since World War 2.
Experts have suggested the fact that Russia's flagship in the Black Sea, a ship called 'Moscow', was so badly damaged, raises more questions about Russia's preparedness and military acumen.
