KHARKIV, UKRAINE, May 15 — On the evening of May 14, Russian troops hit the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv with three air bombs. They damaged residential buildings, including two floors of a high-rise building, and garages, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said to Gwara Media.
According to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the Russian attack injured 21 civilians, including two girls aged 12 and 8, and a 12-year-old boy.
Russians hit the 10th and 11th floors of a 12-storey apartment building, causing severe damage.
“There are cracks in the building’s structure. I think we will need to [move people from here] because of the risk of accidents. Specialists from the State Emergency Service are working now and checking the apartments,” Terekhov said.
The Russian shelling also damaged the building of the Semen Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics.
The mayor also emphasized that only civilian objects came under Russian attack. According to him, in this way, the Russians are trying to intimidate Kharkiv residents once again and force them to leave the city.
Petro, a resident of one of the damaged houses, shows Gwara’s journalists to his apartment. The blast wave smashed all his windows and cut his face.
“Everything was [blown out]. I was sitting on a chair against the wall. I have no idea why I didn’t sit in the chair next to the window. If I had sat there, I probably would have been cut badly. And now I have several cuts,” Petro says and shows his wounds.
Petro says he was in the apartment with his wife and grandson at the time of the explosion: “Every day you think about how to survive [through] this, but well, we need to be doing [at least] something”.
Law enforcement reports the Russian army struck the city with modified gliding bombs (D-30 UMPB).
Photo credits: Russians bombarded the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media
Gwara Media was in Vovchansk, a city that’s one of the main goals of Russian troops in this Kharkiv offensive, and talked to people who were fleeing their homes (or staying) under heavy bombardment. Read the field report here.
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- Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR), said in an interview with the New York Times that Ukrainian forces will be able to stabilize the front in the Kharkiv region within “three to four days.” But he expects Russia to conduct a new attack north of Kharkiv, in the Sumy region.
- On May 13, at about 4:34 p.m., the Russian military attacked a farm in Korotych, Kharkiv district, injuring four people and killing one, reported Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
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