According to Ukrainian sources, six people were killed and another 16 were injured in a Russian rocket attack on the northeastern town on Wednesday night.
The information could not initially be independently verified. They were made by the governor of the region, Oleh Sinegubov, on the Telegram message service. After the attack, a large fire broke out in a residential building. A skyscraper was hit, Kharkov Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram. Media reported that a cruise missile hit the house and set it on fire. Governor Sinegubov announced that other places in Ukraine’s second-largest city had also been hit. The bombing was “quite chaotic”.
Zelenskyy criticizes “attack on civilians”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Telegram that a residential building was “completely destroyed” in the attack. It was a “shameful and cynical attack on civilians” that was “completely unjustified” and showed the “impotence of the aggressor”.
Kharkiv as a regular destination
Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, is just 40 kilometers from the Russian border and has been regularly bombed since the Russian war of aggression began in late February. However, Russian troops failed to capture the city.
According to authorities, hundreds of civilians have been killed in the Kharkiv region since the start of the war. Russian forces are currently focusing their offensive on eastern and southern Ukraine.
Small successes in Kherson
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces say they have repelled a Russian attack in the southern Kherson region. “Russian forces have made minimal progress since last month, and in some cases we have advanced,” Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video. “What we’re seeing here is a ‘strategic dead end’.”