At least six people were killed and 16 others were injured after a Russian missile attack on a postal depot in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Ukrainian officials said.
Russian forces fired two missiles from the Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine, at “a building belonging to a logistics company located in the Kharkiv region” on Saturday (21), according to Dmytro Chubenko, spokesman for the Russian government’s office. prosecutor of the Kharkiv region.
Chubenko added that search and rescue operations are ongoing and that the identities of the victims have not yet been confirmed.
The US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, called the attack on the post office in Kharkiv “horrible”.
“Once again, overnight, horrific images of Russian violence against civilians in Ukraine – a missile attack on a post office in Kharkiv killed six people and seriously injured others. The Kremlin’s disregard for life is visible to the entire world. The United States supports Ukraine to hold Russia accountable,” Brink posted on social media this Sunday (22).
Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, was liberated from Russian occupation by Kiev troops last year but has been the target of frequent airstrikes by Moscow.
Russian troops are fighting to advance west towards Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, while also hitting several regions with missile strikes.
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Separate Russian airstrikes on the town of Beryslav in the southern Kherson region killed an elderly woman on Friday morning, Kherson region chief military officer Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a Telegram post.
“The occupants dropped four guided aerial bombs on Beryslav. An 80-year-old woman suffered serious injuries in her own home. The woman died on the spot due to her injuries,” he said. Seven people were injured in the attacks, he said.
Over the past week, a secret weapons delivery of American long-range ATACMS missiles has aided Ukraine’s long-stalled counteroffensive, while Ukrainian troops appeared to have crossed the Dnipro River into the Russian-occupied Kherson region from according to pro-Kremlin military bloggers.
Source: CNN Brasil
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