At least 4 dead and 9 wounded in Russian attack on central Kharkov

At least four people were killed and nine others wounded in Wednesday’s Russian missile attack on the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the east of the country, the State Emergency Service reported.

“Emergency rescue operations are underway on administrative buildings after morning enemy missile attack on Kharkiv”said the source on his official Telegram channel.

“So far 10 people have been rescued from the rubble. There are 4 dead, 9 injured.he added.

The Russian attack on the center of Kharkiv took place around 0610 GMT with missiles against several state buildings and a university.

“The missiles damaged the building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the State Unitary Company of the National Police in the Kharkiv region and the building of the Kharkiv National University”indicated the operational center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in its official Telegram account.

According to the UNIAN agency, the explosions took place in the very center of Kharkov, 1.5 kilometers from Freedom Square, which was bombed the day before.

Previously, the operational center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the early morning landing of Russian airborne troops in Kharkov, which is still under Ukrainian control, although Russian soldiers seized the train station and the river port, according to the mayor. Igor Kolykhaev.

According to him, “the occupants attacked the hospital, the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Northern Region” and a battle broke out between the invaders and the Ukrainian defenders.

The adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Anton Gerashchenko, stated today on his Telegram account that “Kharkov has been constantly under fire from the Russians.”

On Tuesday, one of the attacks by Russian forces was against the headquarters of the regional administration, in which at least 7 people died and 24 were injured.

The second bombing was recorded in a residential building, according to the State Emergency Service, and caused 8 deaths and 6 injuries.

The head of the Kharkov regional state administration, Oleg Sinegúbov, quoted by Gershchenko, said that 21 people died the day before, and another 112 were injured.

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