<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Russian missiles hit an apartment block and kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes U.S. President Joe Biden condemned as "barbarism" as world leaders gathered in Europe to discuss further sanctions against Moscow.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Up to four explosions shook central Kyiv in the early ours, in the first such attack on the city in weeks. Two more blasts were heard on the southern outskirts of the city later in the day, a Reuters reporter said.</div><div><br></div><div>"The Russians hit Kyiv again. Missiles damaged an apartment building and a kindergarten," said Andriy Yermak, head of the president's administration.</div><div><br></div><div>A Reuters photographer saw a large blast crater by a playground in a private kindergarten that had smashed windows.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine's police chief, Ihor Klymenko, said on national television that five people had been wounded, and police later said one person was killed.</div><div><br></div><div>"It's more of their barbarism," said Biden, referring to the missile strikes, as leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) rich democracies gathered for a summit in Germany.</div><div><br></div><div>As Europe's biggest land conflict since World War Two entered its fifth month, the Western alliance supporting Kyiv was starting to show signs of strain as leaders fret about the growing economic cost, including surging food and energy prices.</div><div><br></div><div>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the West needed to maintain a united front against Russian President Vladimir Putin.</div><div><br></div><div>"The price of backing down, the price of allowing Putin to succeed, to hack off huge parts of Ukraine, to continue with his programme of conquest, that price will be far, far higher," he told reporters. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>