A Russian missile strike on several residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed one and wounded three people on Tuesday, Ukraine's president said.

"A Russian missile hit the city centre," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Facebook post, adding that six buildings were damaged. "At least three people were injured. One person died."

Images released by Zelensky showed police and rescuers working in front of a three-storey partially-destroyed brick building with shattered windows.

"The evil state continues to fight against the civilian population," Zelensky said, adding that a rescue operation was ongoing.

Kramatorsk is located in the eastern industrial region of Donetsk, parts of which, including its largest city, have been controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists since 2014.

In early February three were killed and 20 wounded when a Russian rocket struck a residential building in the city centre.

In April 2022, a missile strike killed some 60 fleeing civilians at the Kramatorsk train station, in one of the deadliest attacks targeting civilians of the invasion.

Moscow has been seeking to capture the entire region after declaring it part of Russia last year.