At least two died and dozens were injured when Russia attacked a hardware store in the city of Kharkiv on Saturday.
Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terehov wrote the message service In Telegramthat there are definitely two dead and several wounded. The Kyiv Independent – online magazine, there are at least 33 injured.
According to the newspaper, the men who died in the attack were, among other things, employees of a store selling building materials and household goods. Ten other employees were still missing on Saturday evening, according to the newspaper.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyi called the blow message service in X for a new brutal attack on Kharkiv. Zelenskyi wrote in the early evening that more than 200 people could have been inside the building when Russia struck.
The Reuters news agency reported on Saturday evening that, according to Terehov, there were around 120 people in the hardware store when the bombs hit.
“The attack was carried out in a shopping center where there were many people – this is pure terrorism,” Terehov wrote in his update earlier on Saturday.
Governor of Kharkiv region Oleh Synjehubovin according to the hardware store, two bombs guided by Russia hit. According to Synjehubov, the strikes caused a fire in an area of 15,000 square meters.
Russia started of the ground attack in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv, on May 10.
Ukraine told on Friday, May 24, that he had stopped the Russian ground attack.
Rescue workers Firefighting in the store’s garden department.
The attack took place at a large store selling construction and garden supplies on the outskirts of Kharkiv.
People react to the Russian attack at the scene in Kharkiv.
A sooty firefighter at the scene.
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