KYIV: A Russian night-time assault on Ukraine’s second metropolis of Kharkiv killed six folks and wounded virtually a dozen, Kyiv mentioned on Saturday.
The northeastern metropolis 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Russian border — has seen elevated lethal assaults in current months, greater than two years into Moscow’s invasion.
“Six killed and 11 wounded on account of the enemy’s night-time missile assault on Kharkiv,” the native prosecutor’s workplace mentioned on social media.
Authorities mentioned the strike hit simply after midnight.
“At about 12:20am, the Russian armed forces launched missile assaults on the residential Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv,” the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
It mentioned “high-rise buildings, administrative buildings, dormitories, a kindergarten, retailers, cafes and automobiles had been broken.”
Kharkiv police mentioned Moscow fired two S-300 missiles on the metropolis after which attacked with drones throughout rescue operations.
“At evening, the Russians attacked Kharkiv with S-300. On a metropolis that’s sleeping,” Volodymyr Tymoshko of the native police drive mentioned on social media.
He mentioned Russia then used “the observe of repeated shelling”.
“When all related providers had been working on the website of the missile hit, enemy drones arrived,” he mentioned, including that air defence downed then.
Native officers earlier mentioned that the six useless had been killed by the drones.
Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov mentioned Russia attacked “whereas Kharkiv residents had been sleeping peacefully”.
He mentioned, “9 residential buildings” had been broken in addition to “two kindergartens, two colleges” and “a number of dozen retailers”.
President Volodymyr Zelensky decried the “Russian terror in opposition to Kharkiv” and referred to as on elevated Western air defence deliveries to guard the northeastern area.
The Russian military claimed it had destroyed two anti-aircraft programs in Kharkiv.
Ukrainian police additionally mentioned there have been no casualties in a separate assault on Mala Danylivka, a village on Kharkiv’s northwest outskirts.