Officials say a Russian drone has blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack that killed at least six people and wounded nine others.

A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy early on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 13, including a child, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

At least six people were killed in an overnight Russian drone attack on the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, authorities said on Thursday. Their bodies were recovered from the rubble of a high-rise residential building,