Sixty-one people were injured, the Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Sergiy Lysak said Saturday after emergency operations were completed overnight.
Unverified videos on social media appeared to show bodies lying on a street, while another showed a plume of smoke rising into the evening sky.
“18... that is how many people were killed by the Russians when they launched a missile at Kryvyi Rig. Among them were nine children,“ Lysak said on Telegram.
“This is the kind of pain you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy,“ said Lysak.
It said Saturday that Russian its air defence units had intercepted and destroyed 49 Ukrainian drones overnight.
US President Donald Trump has been pushing for a speedy end to the more than three-year war since taking office, but his administration has failed to broker a ceasefire despite talks with both sides.
“There is only one reason why this continues -- Russia does not want a ceasefire and we see it. The whole world sees it,“ he said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier on Friday that Trump was not “going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations” with Russia over the invasion.
Zelensky accused Russia of regarding diplomacy as an “empty word” in his evening address.
‘Deliberate strike’
Zelensky was born in the industrial city, which had a pre-war population of around 600,000 people.
The Iskander is a Russian ballistic missile system that can have a range of up to 500 kilometres (311 miles).
In separate drone attack on Kryvyi Rig, Lysak said a 56-year-old woman was killed and seven other people injured.
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