At least six people were killed in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Wednesday. According to the authorities, another 16 people were injured, as announced by the governor of the region, Oleh Sinegubov, on the Telegram message service. After the attack, a large fire broke out in a residential building. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian attack in the southern Kherson region.
A skyscraper was hit, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram. Media reported that a cruise missile hit the house and set it on fire. Governor Sinegubov announced that other places in Ukraine’s second-largest city had also been hit. The bombing was “quite chaotic”.
Zelensky: “Shameful and cynical attack on civilians”
President Volodymyr Zelensky told Telegram that a residential building was “completely destroyed” in the attack. It was a “shameful and cynical attack on civilians” that was “completely unjustified” and showed the “impotence of the aggressor”.
Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, is just 40 kilometers from the Russian border and has been regularly bombed since the Russian war of aggression began in late February. However, Russian troops failed to capture the city.
According to authorities, hundreds of civilians have been killed in the Kharkiv region since the start of the war. Russian forces are currently focusing their offensive on eastern and southern Ukraine.
In the southern Kherson region, Ukrainian forces say they have repelled a Russian attack. “Russian forces have made minimal progress since last month, and in some cases we have advanced,” Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video. “What we’re seeing here is a ‘strategic dead end’.”