Russian Air Assault on Kharkiv Claims 3 Lives, Injures 17, Ukraine Reports

Ukrainian officials reported that a Russian air strike targeting a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv overnight resulted in the deaths of three individuals, including a young child, and left 24 others wounded. 

Oleh Synehubov, Governor of the Kharkiv region, stated on Telegram that a drone attack early Monday killed a two-year-old boy in Ukraine’s second-largest city, following a ballistic missile strike the previous evening.

The number of the injured from the Kharkiv attack was “continuously increasing”, Synehubov added.

Also on Telegram, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said two more were killed and 17 injured in both attacks, among them six children aged from six to 17.

“A woman has just been rescued from under the rubble: she is alive,” Terekhov said in a post early on Monday, warning that more might be trapped under the rubble.

The earlier ballistic missile strike on the city shattered about 1,000 windows, Synehubov said. Some residents had to be evacuated, Ukraine’s state emergency service said on Telegram.

Source: Reuters