A 13-year-old boy was killed by a Russian missile attack while waiting for a bus near a mosque in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, nesya Wednesday.
After the attack, the teenager’s father knelt down holding the hand of his dead son, whose body lay on the street near the destroyed bus stop.
Rescue teams took another corpse on a stretcher. The nearby mosque was badly damaged.
Oleh Synehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said three people were killed in Kharkiv on Wednesday – the teenager, a man and a woman – but it was unclear whether the three died at the bus stop.
He said the dead teenager’s 15-year-old sister was also injured, but did not give their names.
“This is another terrible act of terror by the Russians,” Synegubov wrote on the messaging app Telegram.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, did not immediately comment on the incident. He deliberately denied targeting civilians, although Russian missile and rocket attacks have devastated Ukrainian cities and towns.
In a separate post on Telegram, local prosecutors said they believed the rockets were fired from an Uragan multiple rocket launcher.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, withstood a Russian attack that hit its outskirts for the first two months of the invasion, but suffered almost daily shelling last month after a period of relative calm.
Source: CNN Brasil
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