on Friday, local officials said. The bombing came the morning after one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the war began.
Friday’s missile strike in Kharkiv, the second biggest city in Ukraine, hit a residential building and left more than 20 people injured, according to Oleh Synehubov, the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration. Oleh Bychko, the father of the boy killed in the attack, toldthat he’d managed to pull his wife and younger son out of the rubble. His lost son’s name was Tymofiy.
The upsurge in attacks on civilians comes after a number of embarrassing blows against Russia from Ukraine’s counter-offensive, including a missile attack right on the HQ of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet last month. This week, Russian ships were withdrawn from Crimea where their safety could no longer be assured.wrote in a post on Twitter which included a video showing devastation in the aftermath of the attack. He added that the rescue operation was still ongoing.
According to Synehubov, rescuers found the body of a 68-year-old woman as they continued to search through the rubble. He identified the woman as “the grandmother of a dead 10-year-old boy and his wounded 11-month-old brother.” Synehubov claimed that a Russian “Iskander” missile was used in the strike., around 50 miles from Kharkiv, had risen to 52. Speaking on Ukrainian television, he said one person had died in a medical facility and that other casualties remained in serious condition.
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