One person was killed and three injured when debris from a downed rocket hit a Kyiv apartment block, emergency services said.
Russian troops trying to encircle Kyiv launched early morning strikes on the city on Thursday for several successive days, putting traumatised residents further on edge.
Rescuers evacuated 30 people from the 16-storey building in eastern Darnitsky district after it was struck at about 5am (2pm AEDT), the State Emergency Services of Ukraine said.
The upper edge of the Soviet-style block was partially wrecked and an apartment on the top floor was destroyed, AFP journalists at the scene said.
"In Kyiv, due to the fall of the remains of a downed rocket, there was destruction and fire in a high-rise building," the emergency services said on Facebook.
"According to preliminary information, 30 people were evacuated, three of whom were injured. One person has been killed."
'There are survivors'
The news comes as authorities resume search for survivors in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
A bomb shelter under a theatre in the city withstood what Ukraine said was a Russian air strike and there are believed to be survivors trapped underneath, an official at the mayor's office said on Thursday.
Ukraine accused Russian forces on Wednesday of dropping a powerful bomb on the theatre, where it says hundreds of civilians including many children were sheltering during a more than two-week-long siege of the encircled port city.
Russia has denied bombing the theatre.
A woman seen trying to clean a house after a rocket attack that destroyed a residential building. Credit: SOPA Images/Sipa USA
He said rescue work was under way to reach survivors and establish the number of casualties, which was still unknown.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the allegation that Russia had bombed the theatre was a "lie".
She repeated Kremlin denials that Russian forces have targeted civilian areas since the 24 February invasion of Ukraine.
"Russia's armed forces don't bomb towns and cities," she told in a briefing.
Key Ukrainian exit route disrupted
Railways ground to a halt in many places across Poland on Thursday, hit by a widespread traffic control system outage, operator PKP PLK said, disrupting an important means of transport for refugees fleeing Ukraine.
Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk said that railway workers were dealing with the situation and normal service would be resumed as soon as possible.
Almost 2 million people have fled to Poland from Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion. Poland has offered free rail tickets to refugees, allowing them to travel to stay with friends and family around the country.
"Regarding the transport of refugees, which has been the key task of the railway over the past few days, we are in full coordination of the process together with the ministry of infrastructure ... so that the process is not halted and can be carried out to the extent possible," PKP PLK deputy chief executive Miroslaw Skubiszynski told reporters.
The traffic control outage was nearly nationwide, affecting 820 kms of track, he added.
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