The State Department said Friday's attack was “one of the largest missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns” since Russia's invasion began in February 2022.
Five people were killed in central Dnipropetrovsk when rockets hit a shopping center, a house and a sixstory residential building, police said.
In the Black Sea port city of Odessa, three people were killed and at least 15 injured, including two children, when rockets struck residential buildings, the region's governor said.
Rocket strikes on an unidentified critical infrastructure facility were confirmed in the Lviv region, which borders NATO member Poland, the president's office said.
One person was killed in a damaged multistory apartment building in the city of Lviv, the regional governor said. According to the mayor, three schools and a kindergarten were also damaged.
In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, a rocket attack damaged a warehouse, an industrial plant, a medical facility and a transport depot, the regional governor said. One person was killed and 11 others were injured, he said.