A residential block next to the Artem plant in the Shevchenski District in Kyiv with was hit by a Russian cruise missile early on Sunday morning. - JULIAN SIMMONDS/JULIAN SIMMONDS

Russian missile strikes have killed one person and wounded five others near the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy.

"Today, the enemy launched missile attacks on the Cherkasy region," said Ihor Taburets, the regional governor. 

"There are two strikes near the regional centre. One dead and five wounded. Infrastructure damaged." 

Cherkasy has been largely untouched by bombardment since the start of the war, which has been focussed in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine in recent weeks. 

It comes after Russian missiles hit an apartment block in central Kyiv for the first time since April this morning.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said G7 countries should respond to the latest missile strikes by imposing further sanctions on Russia and providing more heavy weapons to Ukraine.

The European Union gave a cautious response to plans by fellow G7 members to ban imports of Russian gold, and said it needed more certainty before signing up to a U.S. initiative to cap the price of Russian oil.

European Council President Charles Michel was cautious about a plan from Britain, United States, Japan and Canada to ban imports of newly mined or refined Russian gold.

"On gold, we are ready to go more into the details and to look if it's possible to target gold in a manner that would target the Russian economy and not in a manner that would target ourselves," Michel, who chairs EU summits, told a news conference as G7 leaders arrived.

The EU, which plans to ban imports of most Russian oil from the end of the year, also has reservations about a U.S. push for a broad oil price cap or "price exception" to restrict Moscow's energy revenue.