No less than 14 individuals have been injured within the Russian missile strike on an ‘strange civilian’ web site, Kyiv says.
Six individuals have been killed and at the very least 14 injured when Russian missiles hit a postal distribution centre in Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officers have mentioned.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in a submit on the Telegram messaging app that the strike on Saturday hit an “strange civilian” web site.
He shared a video exhibiting a constructing with blown-out home windows and heavy structural harm, with the brand of Ukraine’s Nova Poshta postal service within the background.
Victims of the assault are being handled for shrapnel accidents and 7 are in severe situation and “preventing for his or her lives,” regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned.
The injured are aged between 17 and 42, Syniehubov mentioned.
Syniehubov added that postal staff had been unable to hunt shelter from the strike as a result of the constructing was hit simply seconds after a warning siren sounded.
“The Russians have inflicted extra terror on Kharkiv’s peaceable inhabitants,” he mentioned on Telegram.
The regional prosecutor’s workplace mentioned the depot had been struck by two S-300 missiles fired by Moscow’s forces in Russia’s Belgorod area, north of Kharkiv.
Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis and simply 30km (19 miles) from the Russian border. The town was the location of heavy bombing by Russia in February 2022, within the early days of the Russian full-scale invasion.
Russia didn’t instantly touch upon the missile strike nevertheless it has denied concentrating on civilians and civilian buildings because it launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour final yr.