KYIV (Reuters) -Not less than 30 folks, together with three youngsters, had been injured when a Russian guided bomb hit a high-rise residential constructing in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Sunday.
“The rescue operation in Kharkiv continues. A Russian air strike. An peculiar residential constructing, a multi-storey constructing, was broken. There’s a hearth and rubble between the ninth and twelfth flooring,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned on the Telegram messenger app.
He posted pictures of smoke and hearth billowing out of the home windows of a multi-storey constructing. All home windows had been blown out.
Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned civilian infrastructure was additionally broken.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second greatest metropolis, is situated close to the Russian border and is consistently underneath assault from Russian bombs, missiles and drones.
“And the world should assist defend Ukraine from Russian army plane, from dozens of guided bombs that take lives of Ukrainians day by day. This terror may be stopped,” Zelenskiy mentioned.
Kyiv has mentioned it must be allowed to make use of extra highly effective Western-supplied weapons to inflict larger harm inside Russia and impair Moscow’s skill to assault.
Russia denies deliberately concentrating on civilians regardless of having killed hundreds of them because it invaded Ukraine in 2022.
