A Russian guided bomb assault on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential constructing and a playground on Friday, killing seven folks and injuring a minimum of 77 extra, native authorities stated.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated a 14-year-old woman was among the many useless. Ihor Terekhov, the town’s mayor, had earlier stated on Telegram that one baby was killed within the playground.
The 12-storey house block caught hearth because of the strike, the mayor stated. The demise toll from the assault climbed to seven when a lady’s physique was recovered from the rubble, he added in a later assertion.
About 20 of the injured have been in extreme situation, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov stated.
One finish of the block was engulfed in black smoke, with lots of the higher flooring in flames. A number of automobiles parked exterior have been gutted by hearth.
Emergency companies and rescue volunteers rushed to hold survivors out of the constructing. The physique of one of many victims lay below a carpet on the bottom exterior, surrounded by police.
Residents of all ages, a few of them coated in blood, sat shocked on benches and partitions exterior as medics attended to their accidents.
Kharkiv has been the main target of heavy Russian bombing all through the battle, though there had been a drop in depth in current weeks, presumably associated to a shock incursion launched by Ukrainian forces into Russia’s Kursk area.
