At least six people were killed and 14 injured on Saturday by Russian missile attacks on a postal depot in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, local officials reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media of what appears to be a badly damaged warehouse next to debris and a container bearing the logo of Ukrainian postal operator Nova Pochta.
“The 6 people killed and 14 injured by the attack of the occupiers were employees of the company who were inside the Nova Pochta terminal,” said the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegoubov.
“The victims, aged 19 to 42, were injured by shrapnel and blast [des explosions]”, he added.
Fourteen people are hospitalized, including seven in serious condition, according to Mr. Sinegoubov.
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces in the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, fired S-300 missiles, and two of them hit the warehouse.
“Analysis of the debris continues at the scene in order to establish the exact number of injured and dead,” office spokesperson Dmytro Tchoubenko told state media Suspilne.
Other bombings
These six deaths are in addition to the victims of Russian strikes in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, notably in Kryvyï Rig, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian authorities announced on Saturday.
On Friday evening, the bombing of a residential area left one dead and one injured in Kryvyï Rig, in the Dnipropetrovsk region (south), according to the national police.
The injured person, a 57-year-old woman, was hit by shrapnel and is hospitalized in serious condition, the presidential administration said.
A fire was also caused during the night by a strike on an industrial complex, police said, adding that the fire had been extinguished.
“Essential infrastructure is damaged,” added the presidential authority, referring to this fire.
Another person died in a bombing in Nikopol, a town located on the bank of the Dnieper River, about 100 kilometers east of Kryvyi Rig, the regional administration said.
Even further south, in the Kherson region, a series of strikes has left one dead and one injured since Friday morning, according to national authorities.
The authorities indicated that several localities in the Donetsk region had found themselves “under Russian fire”, including Avdiivka.
This industrial city, almost located on the front line since 2014, has been the scene of violent fighting since mid-October, with the Russian army having launched several assaults.