Three killed by Russian missile in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region
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A Ukrainian war crimes prosecutor taking a photo on his mobile phone of the remains of a missile used during an attack in Kharkiv, in November 2024.
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KYIV – A Russian missile strike on Dec 19 killed three people in the village of Shevchenkove in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, where Russian troops are advancing, police said.
“A civilian woman died. Another woman died while being transported to a medical facility, and a civilian man was fatally wounded,” police said.
Russia struck at 1300 GMT (9pm Singapore time) with an Iskander missile, according to preliminary data from the police.
The attack wounded three other people and damaged several houses, police said.
Moscow’s forces are advancing in the region that borders Russia and are aiming to recapture the town of Kupyansk, which was occupied in the first year of the war.
Ukraine recaptured it in September 2022, as part of a lightning offensive that saw its forces regain large swathes of the Kharkiv region.
Outmanned Ukrainian troops are on the back foot across the front line in the Kharkiv region and the Donetsk region farther south, ceding ground to better-equipped Russian troops. AFP
