Russian missiles have killed at least six people and wounded 14 others in Ukraine in an attack on a postal depot in the northeastern Kharkiv region, officials say.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media showing what appeared to be a heavily damaged warehouse surrounded by rubble and a container with the logo of Ukrainian postal operator Nova Poshta.
“All six dead and 14 injured as a result of the attack by the occupiers were employees of the company who were in the Nova Poshta terminal,” said Oleg Sinegubov, governor of the Kharkiv region.
“The victims, aged between 19 and 42, suffered shrapnel wounds and blast injuries,” he added. Of the 14 people treated in hospital, seven were in serious condition.
“Doctors are fighting for their lives,” he added.
Russian missiles have killed at least six people and wounded 14 others in Ukraine in an attack on a postal depot in the northeastern Kharkiv region, officials say
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media showing what appeared to be a heavily damaged warehouse surrounded by rubble and a container with the logo of Ukrainian postal operator Nova Poshta
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces fired S-300 missiles in the Belgorod region north of Kharkiv, two of which hit the warehouse
The remains of the mail distribution center after the attack by Russian missiles
A firefighter extinguishes the fire in the warehouse that was hit by Russian fire
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces fired S-300 missiles in the Belgorod region north of Kharkiv, two of which hit the warehouse.
“The analysis of rubble on site is continuing to determine the exact number of injured and dead,” bureau spokesman Dmytro Chubenko told Suspilne, the Ukrainian state broadcaster.
Elsewhere, a man died when Russian forces shelled the Ukrainian-held city of Nikopol from their base at Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, according to Ukrainian local governor Serhii Lysak.
Mr Lysak said emergency services in Nikopol were working to assess the damage.
Early in the war, Russian troops took over the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, sparking intermittent fears of a radiation accident as shelling continued near the site, often targeting Ukrainian-controlled settlements across the Dnieper River.
In Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown in central Ukraine, a 60-year-old man died on Friday evening when a Russian missile hit an industrial facility, according to Telegram posts from Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul.
Mr Vilkul added that the man’s wife was taken to hospital with serious shrapnel wounds.
Early Saturday, Mr. Vilkul reported that Russian missiles and drones had struck the same location again overnight, causing unspecified damage and starting a fire that was extinguished in the morning.
Mr. Vilkul did not elaborate on the nature of the site or whether it was related to Ukraine’s war effort. He said no one was injured in the second attack.
At least six people were killed and 14 others injured in the strike at a postal depot on Saturday
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov later told reporters that Russian forces had destroyed the Ukrainian military’s fuel and ammunition depots near Kryvyi Rih’s local airport.
Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported Saturday that one civilian was killed and another injured when Russian forces launched “mass shelling” attacks in Ukraine’s frontline Kherson region in the south.
In a Telegram post, Mr. Prokudin said Russian troops had used mortars, artillery, tanks, drones and multiple rocket launchers to attack the province and hit some residential areas.
Last day’s Russian shelling also injured a civilian in the frontline town of Avdiivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, acting local governor Ihor Moroz reported on Saturday.
Avdiivka has been fiercely contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces in recent weeks as Kiev forces try to fend off waves of Russian attacks.
Mr. Moroz said exploding drones, rockets, mortars and artillery shells fired by Russian troops also hit other parts of the province.
Russian troops launched a new offensive north of Avdiivka on Friday that brought them marginal gains, according to an analysis by the Institute for War Research.
The Washington-based think tank cited geolocated footage from pro-Kremlin “military bloggers” on the ground to support its assessment.
Moscow’s renewed advance near Avdiivka reflects the Russian military command’s commitment to offensive operations in the region “despite heavy material and personnel losses,” the institute said.
The Ukrainian General Staff claimed on Friday that Ukrainian forces had damaged and destroyed nearly 50 Russian tanks and more than 100 armored vehicles in fighting near Avdiivka the previous day. The claim could not be independently verified.
Saturday’s strike follows two weeks after another in the same region that left 59 people dead
Oleksandr Shputun, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army unit fighting near Avdiivka, said in televised remarks that Russian military activity in the area had “decreased slightly,” possibly due to heavy losses. However, Mr. Shputun acknowledged that Russian units continued to advance.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, a 39-year-old civilian was hospitalized with injuries when Russian shelling hit two village houses near the embattled city of Kupiansk, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.
Russian forces have been pushing for weeks for an offensive to retake areas near Kupiansk and the nearby town of Lyman.
The governor of Russia’s southern Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said Saturday that Ukrainian forces had shelled two districts of the province with mortars and grenade launchers the previous day. According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, no civilians were injured.
These latest attacks come two weeks after another in the same region.
On October 6, the village of Hroza in northeastern Ukraine was hit by a Russian missile, killing 59 people.
Ukraine said a Russian missile hit a cafe in the region’s village as people gathered to mourn a fallen Ukrainian soldier.
Moscow denies targeting civilians in its large-scale invasion, a position it reiterated in response to a question at a Kremlin briefing about the attack on Hroza.
Stroke casualties are among the highest among civilians in a single Russian attack in nearly 20 months of war.
Forensic experts worked around the clock for six days to identify the victims.
They needed mobile DNA labs to identify 19 people, and one person – a 60-year-old man – was identified only after 20 body parts were collected, officials said.
The Ukrainian security service SBU has accused two villagers who fled to Russia of helping to direct the rocket attack.
Elsewhere, a senior adviser to the Ukrainian president reported that four Ukrainian children released from Russian captivity on Monday have been reunited with their families.
According to Andriy Yermak’s Telegram post, a 17-year-old girl and three boys aged nine, six and three were captured by Russian occupation forces in southern and eastern Ukraine.
Mr Yermak said one of the boys was taken to an orphanage in southern Russia, while another was forcibly taken to Russian-annexed Crimea.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, deportations of Ukrainian children have been a cause for concern.
The International Criminal Court increased pressure on Moscow when it issued arrest warrants in March against President Vladimir Putin and Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine.
State media in Kremlin-allied Belarus have also published reports about children arriving in the country from Ukraine’s occupied territories, ostensibly to take part in “health recovery programs.”