six people killed in Russian strikes on the northeast of the country

At least six people were killed and a dozen others were injured by new Russian strikes on Kharkiv and the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, authorities said. In Kharkiv, located not far from the border with Russia, three rescuers died during a “second strike” on a place which had just been bombed in a “densely populated district of Kharkiv”announced Mayor Igor Terekhov, and twelve people were injured “to varying degrees”he added.

This type of attack, called “double strike”, consists of bombing a place a first time, then a second time when the emergency services have arrived on site. The three rescuers, all men, were 32, 41 and 52 years old, according to Interior Minister Igor Klimenko. A fourth rescuer is among the injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced a “despicable and cynical attack”.

A 68-year-old woman was also killed in a strike on a residential building in another district of Kharkiv, according to regional police. In the suburbs of Kharkiv, a man who was on a tractor also died in another attack, announced the governor of the region, Oleg Synegoubov. And in the neighboring region of Sumy, a 47-year-old employee who worked for a gas distribution network was killed by Russian bombing, according to the Energy Ministry.