Russian forces attacked a multi-story apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Saturday night, wounding 21 people and prompting the evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Kharkiv, 30 km from the Russian border, has been a frequent target of Moscow’s attacks since Kremlin troops launched an invasion of its smaller neighbour in February 2022.
Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the Russians had deployed a guided bomb and that 60 residents had been evacuated from the building. Among the injured were an 8-year-old boy and two 17-year-olds.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the attack and reiterated his call for more weapons from Kiev’s Western partners to defend itself from Russian attacks.
“Ukraine needs comprehensive long-term capabilities and we are working to convince our partners of this,” he wrote on social media.
Further south, a Russian drone strike on Saturday killed two people in the town of Nikopol, the regional governor said.
In the eastern town of Kurakhove, one of the focal points of Russia’s slow advance through the industrial Donetsk region, one person was killed in a Russian artillery attack, according to regional prosecutors.
And local authorities in the Sumy region said that Russian aircraft struck energy infrastructure in the town of Shostka.
Sumy has been another frequent target of Russian attacks and faces the Kursk region in southern Russia, where Ukrainian forces launched an incursion last month.
Source: Terra
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