Russian forces continued to shell northeastern Ukraine on Thursday morning, killing at least 5 people according to kyiv, hours before a meeting between Ukrainian Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the UN Secretary General. , Antonio Guterres in Lviv, in the west of the country.
On Wednesday evening, seven people according to an updated report had already been killed in a Russian bombardment on Kharkiv.
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During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Russian bombardments on residential buildings left three dead and 18 injured in Kharkiv, and two others dead in the city of Krasnograd, about 80 km to the south, according to the emergency services and the governor from the region, Oleg Sinegoubov.
Several residential buildings destroyed
"Around 4:30 am, the enemy launched eight missiles from the city of Belgorod (in Russia) towards Kharkiv", indicated on Telegram Oleg Sinegoubov, specifying that these missiles had fallen on several districts of the city.
“In the Slobidsky district, one of the missiles hit a residential building.
The building is partially destroyed.
According to preliminary data, three people died, 18 were injured including two children,” he said.
Oleg Sinegoubov added that the attack in Krasnograd took place around 4 a.m. on Thursday.
“Several residential buildings were destroyed, more than ten buildings damaged.
Two civilians were killed, two injured including a 12-year-old child,” he said.
Located about 40 kilometers from the border with Russia in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, has been regularly pounded by the Russian army since the start of the invasion in late February, but troops from Moscow never succeeded in taking the city.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the Kharkiv region since the start of the war, according to the count of the authorities.