Russian strike injures twenty people, including minors, in Kharkiv

A nighttime Russian attack on residential buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, which is regularly targeted, left 21 people injured on Saturday evening, September 21. Among the victims were three minors aged 8 to 17, the regional governor announced on Sunday. Eight people were hospitalized, two of them in serious condition, Oleg Synegoubov added on Telegram.

Russia “targeted an ordinary residential building with aerial bombs”President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced on social networks. Dozens of residents “were sleeping”, According to Oleg Synegoubov, two high-rise residential buildings were damaged, the governor said.

On the spot, the mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, assured that it was a civilian target and that there was no “no military here”. “Every day, every night, Kharkiv is being hit by strikes”he recalled. The Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday that Russian forces had launched two missiles and 80 drones during the night, most of the latter having been shot down.