Kremlin rocket kills one person and wounds 42 others after hitting apartment building in Kharkiv, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asks permission to hit Russian military sites
A Russian missile fired at an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, has killed one person and wounded 42, as Volodymyr Zelensky sought permission to directly carry out Russian military strikes.
The body of a 94-year-old was found on the ninth floor of the building, which had sustained damage after the KAB-250 bomb with a UMPK module hit the building.
According to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, three children were injured. Other officials say residents may still be trapped under the rubble.
Photos from the scene show firefighters extinguishing flames from the upper part of the building as other emergency workers pulled civilians from the area.
Several elderly people with serious injuries were seen being led from the building.
Zelensky said in his speech tonight that three other guided bombs had been fired at villages in Kharkiv, where population centers are often targeted by Russian attacks near the Russian border.
A Russian missile fired at an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, has killed one person and injured 42.
Several elderly people were seen being led from the building with serious injuries
Photos taken at the scene show firefighters extinguishing flames from the upper portion of the building
Odessa was also targeted in a drone conflict, with two people tragically killed in the port city today, officials confirmed.
In his speech, Zelensky said that Russia also attacked the Sumy and Donetsk regions with guided bombs on Sunday.
He said the Russian military carries out “at least 100 such airstrikes” every day.
Also on Sunday, Russian shelling killed one person in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, local authorities said, as Moscow forces closed in on the key logistics hub.
Since August, more than 20,000 people, almost half the population, have fled the city, while Russian attacks in the past two weeks have left many residents without water and electricity.
An injured local man tries to send a message on a mobile phone at the site of a damaged residential building after a shelling in Kharkiv
A person sits at the scene after a Russian aircraft bomb hit a multi-storey residential building in Kharkiv
A woman stands in front of a residential building damaged by Russian guided-aircraft fire on September 15, 2024 in Kharkiv.
“At around 11:00 (08:00 GMT), the enemy shelled the western part of the city… Unfortunately, one person was killed,” the Pokrovsk military administration reported on Telegram.
Russia has been advancing towards Pokrovsk for months and is now within 10 kilometres of the eastern suburbs, the local government said.
The city is at the crossroads of rail and road links that supply Ukrainian troops and cities on the eastern front, and has long been a target for Moscow’s military.
Russian attacks earlier this week damaged two viaducts in the city, including one connecting Pokrovsk to the neighboring town of Myrnograd, local media reported.
Other eastern cities, such as Bakhmut and Mariupol, were heavily bombed before falling into the hands of Russian forces.
Firefighters assist an injured person after Russia hit a tall building in Kharkiv with a KAB-250 bomb with a UMPK module in Kharkiv
Russia has denied deliberately targeting civilians
Russia denies deliberately attacking civilians, but Zelensky said the latest series of attacks underlined the need for Ukraine’s Western partners to supply weapons and air defense systems and to allow the use of weapons on targets deep inside Russia to save lives.
Zelensky called for quick decisions on long-range strikes “to destroy Russian military aviation exactly where it is stationed. These are obvious, logical decisions.”
“Every Russian attack of this nature, every example of Russian terror, like today in Kharkov… proves that a long-range weapon is needed and that it should be sufficient.”
He said that appropriate decisions were expected primarily from the United States, France, Germany and Italy, “from those whose decisiveness can save lives.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the West would fight Russia directly if it allowed Ukraine to attack Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles.