(Reuters) -Russia hit a high-rise condo block in Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv throughout an assault with guided bombs on Tuesday, killing at the least three folks and injuring 22 extra, with others feared trapped beneath rubble, native authorities stated.
“Russia is terrorizing the Kharkiv region with impunity… A direct strike on a residential building,” Ukraine’s ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets stated on the Telegram messenger app.
Photographs from the positioning confirmed a gap blown by way of the constructing.
Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov stated on Telegram that the constructing had already been attacked by Russia in the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“It was almost repaired, windows were installed, it was insulated, and prepared for heating season. The enemy hit it second time,” Terekhov stated.
Russia attacked at the least 4 districts within the afternoon, Terekhov stated, together with essentially the most densely populated space of the town.
The regional governor Oleh Syniehubov added on Telegram that a number of condo blocks had sustained harm.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest metropolis, and the encompassing area frequently come beneath Russian assaults. Moscow’s troops extensively use extremely harmful guided bombs that Ukrainian air defences battle to intercept.
Russia denies deliberately focusing on civilians though it has killed 1000’s of them throughout greater than 2/1-2 years of battle.
