At least six people were killed and 17 wounded on Saturday by Russian missiles that struck a postal depot in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, local officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media of what appears to be a badly damaged warehouse next to numerous rubble and a container with the logo of Ukrainian postal operator Nova Pochta.

The people killed and injured in the attack “were employees of the company located in the Nova Pochta terminal,” said Oleg Sinegubov, governor of the Kharkov region.

“The victims, aged between 19 and 42, were injured by shrapnel and the explosion,” he added.

A total of 17 people were injured, according to the Kharkiv Region Prosecutor’s Office.

Sinegubov said some of them had been hospitalized.

“Doctors are fighting for their lives,” he said.

According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces stationed in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine fired S-300 missiles and two of them hit the depot.

“The analysis of the rubble continues at the site to determine the exact number of injured and dead,” the agency’s spokesman, Dmitro Chubenko, told public media Suspilne.

In eastern Ukraine, the prosecutor general announced on Sunday that two people were killed in two bomb attacks in the Bakhmut district.

And a little further south, in Avdiivka, an industrial city contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces, Kiev’s armed forces are maintaining their “protected” positions, Zelensky said in his daily message this Sunday.

Still, the president believed that the situation in that area is “difficult” because of the “numerous attacks” by the Russians.

In recent weeks, that city has been attacked several times by the Russians, who want to surround it.

The Ukrainian military also indicated it had destroyed a guided missile and three drones launched by the Russians; and Russia claimed to have shot down three Ukrainian missiles launched against the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Ukraine has been trying for weeks to focus its operations on this strategic area for Russia, as it is a position that allows the country to supply its troops in southern Ukraine and launch missile attacks from the sea. (JO)