Kharkiv, 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border, has been a frequent goal of Moscow’s assaults for the reason that Kremlin’s troops launched their February 2022 invasion of its smaller neighbour
Reuters
23 September, 2024, 10:45 am
Final modified: 23 September, 2024, 10:49 am
Russian forces struck a multi-storey home building in Ukraine’s 2d-most keen metropolis, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, wounding 21 americans and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov talked about.
Kharkiv, 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border, has been a frequent goal of Moscow’s assaults for the reason that Kremlin’s troops launched their February 2022 invasion of its smaller neighbour.
Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, talked about the Russians had deployed a guided bomb and that 60 residents had been evacuated from the building. An 8-365 days-ragged and two 17-365 days-olds were amongst the wounded, he added.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the strike and repeated his name for extra weapons from Kyiv’s Western partners to defend towards Russian strikes.
“Ukraine wants elephantine lengthy-differ capabilities, and we’re working to persuade our partners of this,” he wrote on social media.
Additional south, a Russian drone attack killed two americans on Saturday in the metropolis of Nikopol, the regional governor talked about.
Within the eastern town of Kurakhove, among the focal functions of Russia’s tiresome advance thru the industrial Donetsk space, one person was once killed in a Russian artillery strike, regional prosecutors talked about.
And native authorities in the Sumy space talked about Russian plane struck vitality infrastructure in town of Shostka.
Sumy has been one other frequent goal of Russian assaults and lies opposite Russia’s southern Kursk space, the place Ukrainian forces launched an incursion last month.
