Warmonger Putin bombs hardware superstore in Kharkiv in ‘vile’ attack – killing at least two, wounding more than 20 and sending huge column of black smoke into the sky
Two people have been killed and more than 20 injured after Russia bombed a superstore in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
President Volodymyr Zelensky today condemned the attack – which sent a huge column of black smoke into the sky – as ‘despicable’.
Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said at least two people were killed and 24 injured when “two Russian guided bombs hit a construction hypermarket” and “a fire broke out in more than 15,000 square meters.”
Videos posted on social media by witnesses show a huge column of black smoke billowing into the sky after a fire at the Epitsentr store, located in an area of major stores next to a parking lot.
It is believed that around 200 people and 15 employees were in the Epitsentr hypermarket, which sells household and DIY items, at the time of the attack.
Two people have been killed and more than 20 injured after Russia bombed a superstore in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the attack – which sent a huge column of black smoke into the sky – as ‘despicable’.
The city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest, has been regularly attacked by Russian missiles, with at least seven people killed in attacks on the city on Thursday.
The latest attack came after Russia launched a ground offensive in the Kharkiv region on May 10.
Ukraine said on Friday it had managed to halt Moscow’s progress and was launching a counterattack.
“Right now we know that there could have been more than 200 people in the hypermarket,” Zelensky told Telegram.
“Russia dealt another brutal blow to our Kharkiv in the middle of the day on Saturday, at a construction hypermarket,” Zelensky said.
“Only madmen like Putin are capable of killing and terrorizing people in such a vicious way,” he added.
“There were a lot of workers and shoppers inside. Now the fire is raging throughout the territory.’
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that according to the store’s owner, they had lost contact with 15 store employees and that there were about 200 people in the building at the time of the strikes.
‘A large number of people are missing. There are many injured,” Terechov wrote on Telegram.
Firefighters work at the site of a home goods shopping center hit by a Russian airstrike
“Apparently the attack took place at a shopping center where there were a lot of people – this is pure terrorism.”
On Saturday, Russia shelled the village of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, a railway junction in the Kharkov region near the border, wounding five, the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
It said two vehicles came under fire: a car with two passengers and an ambulance with a driver, a paramedic and a 64-year-old patient.
Russia also carried out airstrikes on the Kupiansk district, damaging a factory and residential buildings, the prosecutor’s office said.
Shelling killed a 40-year-old woman and wounded four in the eastern Donetsk region on Saturday, the head of the regional administration, Vadym Filashkin, said.