Explosions occurred in Kharkiv around 16:00. Preliminarily, the Russians struck a residential area of the city, reports Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
“The strike is preliminarily in a residential area of the city, in a dense civilian area. Information about the victims and damage is being clarified,” Terekhov said.
According to the mayor of Kharkiv, all relevant services will work at the site of the hit.
Updated at 16:18. Russians hit a construction hypermarket
According to Terekhov, according to preliminary data, Russians hit a construction hypermarket. There may be victims, but this information, according to the mayor, needs to be clarified.
The head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said on his Telegram channel that a fire had broken out at the scene.
Updated at 16:28. There is a dead and injured
Syniehubov said that there was a dead and injured as a result of the shelling of Kharkiv.
“As of now, we know about one dead person and at least four wounded. The information is being updated,” said the head of the Regional Military Administration.
Updated at 16:39. The death toll is now two
“We already know about two dead,” Terekhov said.
Updated at 16:49. Many people are missing
According to the mayor of the city, the Russians targeted the shopping center. There were many people there at the time of the attack.
“We have a large number of people missing. There are many wounded. Apparently, the strike was aimed at the shopping center, where there were many people – this is pure terrorism,” Terekhov said.
Updated at 16:58. There are 11 victims reported
According to Syniehubov, as of 16:58, 11 people were reported injured in the attack on Kharkiv.
Updated at 17:28. The number of injured is now 24, there could have been 200 people in the hypermarket
According to the latest data from the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, the number of victims has increased to 24. At the same time, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that more than 200 people could have been in the hypermarket. Specialized services are currently working at the scene.
In addition, Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesperson for the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, said that law enforcement officers had seized video surveillance footage from the Epicenter hypermarket to establish who was inside at the time of the attack. At least 10 people are now known to be missing.
Shelling of Kharkiv and the region
This is not the first time today that explosions have been heard in Kharkiv. On the night of May 25, Russians attacked an educational institution in the city. The shelling destroyed a workshop and damaged the main building of the lyceum.
In the afternoon, explosions were heard in Northern Saltivka. As it turned out, the Russians were attacking the outskirts of Kharkiv. According to Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the Regional Military Administration, the occupiers hit with anti-aircraft guns, which resulted in one civilian casualty.
A few days earlier, the Russians attacked a printing house in Kharkiv. As a result of the enemy shelling, seven people were killed and more than 20 were wounded.
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And still Ukraine is not allowed to strike RuSSia?! This is a right concerning the UN charta! 😤😡☠️
The putinaZis have again inflicted unimaginable pain on innocent people, purely to satisfy the sick and sadistic compulsions of the foul scum that support the rat nazi.
Those who give the orders and those who carry out these type of terror atrocities must be hunted down some way somehow and treated with the same bestial savagery as they treat their victims.
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I would not like to make an unfortunate or inopportune comparison. But last night I watched a Batman, one of the darkest, which described the shift of a world where law and order were sinking into anarchy and the dictatorship of violence and terror.
We are experiencing this. Wrapped in our Western confidence and arrogance, we let the Nazis in the Kremlin day after day recompose the architecture of relations and international law. Our inability to truly help Ukraine by fully supporting it is a license given to the terrorists in Moscow to continue their genocide.
Let’s stop the childishness. Tomorrow we must give all possible anti-aircraft defense equipment to Ukraine and think about protecting Ukraine’s airspace. that’s enough, Western elites, you are elected to defend your nation but also to guarantee a living space for democracy and defend the international agreements governing the institutions in which you lounge around without doing anything. Ukraine will lose everything if we let uninhibited Nazis continue to massacre the Ukrainian people.
That should also include allowing both sides of politics into the support instead of chasing away people with politics you don’t agree with. With no politics in the mix there is just beautiful Ukraine who needs ALL the support she can get.
We owe it to ourselves to tell ourselves the truth. The one that the Nazi terrorist dwarf in the Kremlin has been repeating for ages. The weakness of the West will bring about the fall of Urkaine and its own fall.
It’s the truth. There is still time to accept it, to accept the reality of the balance of power and to act. Because if Ukraine loose, Europe too, Macron too, UK too, Biden, Trump, Congress and the United States loose too, humanity loose. End of the party. Do you want this?
The free world doesn’t want it! Act appropriately, for heaven’s sake!
All defense systems to Ukraine and no fly zone!
I hope Biden and Johnson enjoy their weekend. They are fully responsible for this terrorism.
Everyone who denies Ukraine the right to attack mafia land with their weapons is at fault, and those who refuse to send what’s desperately needed.
What evil, despicable, subhuman creatures! I wish all of mafia land would burn to the ground!
I’m just waiting for the usual propaganda about NATO troops hiding amongst the flowers in the garden centre, or tanks hiding behind the wallpaper supplies.
This crime will not be unanswered. Enough is enough!