Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv kills one, injures 12
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Rescuers working at the site of a Russian missile strike, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Aug 6.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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KYIV - At least one person was killed and 12 others, including an eight-month old baby, were injured on Aug 6, when a Russian missile struck a residential area of Kharkiv in north-east Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said.
A medical clinic was among many buildings that suffered damage in the attack, which the governor of the Kharkiv region, Mr Oleh Syniehubov, said had involved an Iskander ballistic missile.
“There are people under the rubble. Everything is being done to help them,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app, in his evening address.
The area hit by the missile is densely populated, city mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Dozens of cars and residential buildings and some administrative buildings were damaged, Mr Syniehubov said.
Russia has pummelled the city, which lies less than 30km from its border, since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. REUTERS
Rescuers working at the site of a Russian missile strike, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Aug 6.
PHOTO: REUTERS
