Russia on Sunday bombarded residential areas of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, with ballistic missiles and powerful guided bombs, wounding more than 40 civilians, Ukrainian officials said. The attack came hours after what the Russian authorities said was a wave of drone attacks against energy facilities across Russia, including an oil refinery in Moscow, APA reports citing The New York Times.
At least 10 explosions rocked Kharkiv, a city of 1.3 million situated less than 25 miles from the Russian border, local officials said, warning that they expected the number of casualties to rise as emergency crews raced across the city to various blast sites.
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Russia had launched about 10 attacks on the city of Kharkiv on the morning of 1 September, according to the Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov and Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, APA reports citing Ukrainska Pravda.
Oleh Syniehubov reported damage to civilian infrastructure and casualties.
Ihor Terekhov reported that one of the strikes damaged a residential area.
Several households and a supermarket were on fire. There are medics among the victims.
Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration later added that the damaged infrastructure included a shopping centre, a sports facility, and residential buildings.
Terekhov later reported that 22 people had been injured in Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district and 6 in the Nemyshlianskyi district, among them a 6-year-old child who suffered an acute stress reaction.
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