05/31/2024May 31, 2024
Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in Kharkiv: Ukraine officials
hit three sites in ‘s second largest city, Kharkiv, killing at least three people and injuring 16, officials said on Friday.
Bystander accounts of the strike said the missiles hit a five-storey apartment block, a shop, a three-storey building and a sewing factory, around midnight local time.
Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said that S-300 missiles were used. He further said the attacks were in the “double tap” format seen of late, in which a second strike is delivered soon after the initial one on the same site.
“All strikes are exclusively at civilian infrastructure,” he added.
Syniehubov warned that more people could be under the rubble. He said at least two children and an emergency medic were among the injured in the attack.
denies deliberately targeting civilians.
“The third, fourth and fifth floors are destroyed, stairwells were destroyed, facades were destroyed,” Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov told public broadcaster Suspilne, describing damage to the apartment building.
Kharkiv Police Chief Volodymyr Tymoshko told Suspilne he expected the death toll to rise given the extensive shrapnel injuries.
The , which is located just across the border from Russia’s Belgorod, withstood Russian advances in the early weeks of the However, it has been by missiles and drones in recent weeks.
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