Russian missiles kill at least six people and wound a dozen more in strike on Ukrainian mail depot
Russian missiles have killed at least six people and wounded 14 others in Ukraine in an attack on a postal depot in the northeastern Kharkiv region, officials say.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media of what appeared to be a badly damaged warehouse surrounded by rubble and a container with the logo of the Ukrainian postal company Nova Poshta.
“All six people killed and 14 injured as a result of the occupying forces’ attack were company employees located in the Nova Poshta terminal,” said Oleg Sinegubov, governor of the Kharkov region.
“The victims, aged between 19 and 42, suffered shrapnel and blast damage,” he added. Of the fourteen people treated in hospital, seven were in serious condition.
“Doctors are fighting for their lives,” he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media of what appeared to be a badly damaged warehouse surrounded by rubble and a container with the logo of Ukrainian postal operator Nova Poshta.
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces in the Belgorod region north of Kharkiv fired S-300 rockets, two of which hit the warehouse.
“Debris investigation at the site continues to determine the exact number of injured and dead,” office spokesman Dmytro Chubenko told Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster.
Saturday’s strike comes two weeks after another in the same region.
On October 6, the village of Hroza in northeastern Ukraine was hit by a Russian missile, killing 59 people.
Ukraine said a Russian missile struck a cafe in the region’s village as people gathered to mourn a fallen Ukrainian soldier.
Moscow denies it is targeting civilians in its large-scale invasion, a position it reiterated in response to a question during a Kremlin briefing on the attack on Hroza.
Saturday’s strike comes two weeks after another in the same region that left 59 people dead
The toll from the stroke is among the highest among civilians from any Russian attack in nearly twenty months of the war.
Forensic experts worked around the clock for six days to identify the victims.
They needed mobile DNA labs to identify 19 people, and one person — a 60-year-old man — was identified only after 20 body parts were collected, officials said.
Ukraine’s security service SBU has accused two villagers, who it said had fled to Russia, of helping to guide the rocket attack.