A Russian airstrike on a school on Monday killed at least two civilians and injured two in the Kharkiv region (north-east), local Ukrainian authorities said.
“Two men aged 63 and 65 died on the spot,” said the governor, Oleg Sinegoubov, on Telegram, adding that two women aged 63 and 66 were injured and hospitalized.
He claimed that a “guided aerial bomb” had hit a “school establishment” in the town of Loukyantsi, located north of Kharkiv and very close to the Russian border.
Russian forces are intensifying the use in Ukraine of these guided bombs dropped by plane, with very destructive power and equipped with fins allowing them to glide to increase their range of action.
Earlier, Ukrainian authorities in the Donetsk region announced the death of four more civilians on Sunday evening in the town of Siversk.
” The city [de Siversk] was bombarded last night with multiple rocket launchers. It was established that four men aged 36 to 86 were killed,” Governor Vadym Filashkin said on social media.
Siversk, a small mining town populated before the Russian invasion with 11,000 inhabitants, is located near the front and is subject to very frequent bombings.
Ukraine admitted on Sunday that the situation was “tense” on the eastern front, where the Russian army is pushing ever harder to seize the strategic locality of Chassiv Yar, 35 km southwest of Siversk.
This offensive occurs at a very delicate time for the Ukrainian army which is struggling to recruit and lacks ammunition in the face of an adversary with more numerous and better equipped troops.
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