UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Apr 23 — During the day of April 22, Russia attacked Kharkiv and its outskirts with 14 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), killing 1 and injuring nine civilians. Gwara Media worked on the impact site to document another Russian war crime.
After the end of the so-called Easter ceasefire declared by Putin, the Russian army massively attacked Kharkiv in the middle of the day, continuing to use a new tactic of drone attacks.
Russian drones hit four Kharkiv districts.
“Today, between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., Russian troops launched a massive attack using 14 Shahed-type UAVs, specifically Geran-2. 12 drones hit Shevchenkivskyi, Novobavarskyi, Kyivskyi, and Saltivskyi districts of Kharkiv,” said Spartak Borysenko, one of the senior experts from the Kharkiv regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Russia damaged civilian businesses in Shevchenkivskyi, Saltivskyi, and Novobavarskyi districts. In Kyivskyi district, a drone hit the roadway, setting fire to the car and damaging 15 other cars and the administrative building.
In the Saltivskyi district, a Russian attack damaged at least six buildings, said the Kharkiv City Council.
Also, one Russian drone hit a house in Derhachi and an empty area in Ruska Lozova settlements that are located 9-12 miles to the northwest and north of Kharkiv’s center.
On April 22, the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration said that the driver of the car that caught fire is in critical condition in hospital—today, local authorities reported he died from injuries.
Two injured people were hospitalized in the surgery department, the other two — in neurosurgery and traumatology. One of the injured was hospitalized with explosive traumas. Three injured got medical help on the spot.
Currently, four of the injured people are still in hospital.
On April 23, Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast governor, reported that a man who was seriously wounded during yesterday’s Russian attack died in hospital.
“Everything (Olena’s apartment — ed.) is fine. The cat was there, I couldn’t find it. The neighbors’ windows on the first floor are blown out; the nearest building’s windows are blown out, too, and windows on the stairs near my apartment. My windows were only opened because of the blast wave,” said Olena, one of the residents of a damaged apartment building.
At first, she was scared, but she didn’t need medical help.
“This is the first time I felt such a close hit. I have lived there since I was born. Give me an assault rifle, and I will go and kill them (Russians — ed.). I can’t say it differently,” said the woman.
On the night of April 23, Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with six UAVs. The attack lasted more than an hour, setting a large-scale fire in the Novobavarskyi district of the city.
In total, Russia injured 17 people in the Kharkiv region over the past day.
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