KYIV (Reuters) -No less than 30 individuals, together with three kids, have been injured when a Russian guided bomb hit a high-rise residential constructing in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Sunday.
“The rescue operation in Kharkiv continues. A Russian air strike. An ordinary residential building, a multi-storey building, was damaged. There is a fire and rubble between the 9th and 12th floors,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned on the Telegram messenger app.
He posted images of smoke and fireplace billowing out of the home windows of a multi-storey constructing. All home windows had been blown out.
Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned civilian infrastructure was additionally broken.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest metropolis, is situated close to the Russian border and is consistently underneath assault from Russian bombs, missiles and drones.
“And the world must help defend Ukraine from Russian military aircraft, from dozens of guided bombs that take lives of Ukrainians every day. This terror can be stopped,” Zelenskiy mentioned.
Kyiv has mentioned it must be allowed to make use of extra highly effective Western-supplied weapons to inflict higher injury inside Russia and impair Moscow’s capability to assault.
Russia denies deliberately concentrating on civilians regardless of having killed hundreds of them because it invaded Ukraine in 2022.
