The eastern Ukrainian city is among the most heavily bombed targets in the country.
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Russian strikes left three dead and around forty injured on Saturday June 22 in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city regularly targeted by Moscow’s forces, authorities announced. These bombings came after a night already marked by a “massive” attack against the country’s fragile energy system.
The Russian army struck this town, very close to its border, using four “guided aerial bombs”, very powerful weapons, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram. Three people died and “more than 40” were injured, with a residential building having been hit, he lamented. Images of the damage were widely shared on social networks in the country.
Kharkiv region governor Oleg Synegubov earlier said four injured were “in serious condition”, doctors “fighting for their lives”. The building was gutted, all its windows blown out. Pieces of furniture and metal were scattered on the sidewalk along it, where a large hole indicated the probable impact of a bomb, near damaged cars.
