A Russian ballistic missile destroyed an entrance section of a residential building in Kharkiv. Seven people were killed, including two children, and more than ten others were injured, Kharkiv Regional Military Administration head Oleh Syniehubov said.
Among those killed were a 65-year-old woman, a 40-year-old man, a 13-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy. The injured include women aged 55, 80, 75, 58, 60 and 58, a 55-year-old man, a 17-year-old girl and boys aged six and eleven.
Over the past day, 17 more settlements in the Kharkiv region were struck. In Chuhuiv, men aged 72 and 62 and a 58-year-old woman were injured, while in the village of Zemlianky in the Vovchansk community a 70-year-old man was killed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that during the night attack Russia used 29 missiles, nearly half of them ballistic, as well as 480 drones, mostly Shahed-type. Strikes targeted energy facilities in Kyiv and in the Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi regions, as well as railway infrastructure in the Zhytomyr region.
Damage was also reported in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy and Cherkasy regions.
Zelenskyy called on Ukraine’s partners to respond to the strikes and demanded the continuation of the PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List) program, as well as active cooperation with the European Union to strengthen the protection of Ukrainian cities.
