UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Nov 8 – At night, around 3:30 a.m., the Russian army dropped glide bombs on three different locations in Kharkiv, injuring 25 civilians, including four children. The Russians also damaged facilities in the city’s central district and Saltivka neighbourhood, including high-rise buildings, shops, cars, a metro station, and Derzhprom, a high-rise on the Freedom Square.
The Russian army has been often attacking Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, since the start of the full-scale invasion — the city is close to the border and the frontline. Russians use various weapons like glide bombs, strike drones, and missiles to target civilian and critical infrastructure.
“Today, the Russians attacked civilian buildings and other objects once again. They attacked with FABs [highly explosive aerial bombs — ed.]. They attacked people who were sleeping at night,” Serhii Bolvinov, head of the Investigation Department of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kharkiv Region, told reporters at night.
Russian attack damaged a 12-storey building in the Saltivsyi district of the city. The bombs also hit next to a children’s supermarket near the Naukova subway station and the square between the buildings of Karazin Kharkiv National University.
The city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, added that the attack caused a small fire, but firefighters put it out almost immediately.
A total of 30 residents of the building were evacuated from the high-rise in Saltivka, including four children. The bomb attack also damaged the neighboring houses and cars that were in the yard at the time of the attack.
“There is a hole in the wall on the other side, near the warehouse. There, all the windows are smashed, the whole room is in rubble, but all the parcels seem intact. We have moved them to another branch,” explained Artem, an employee of the Nova Poshta, Ukraine’s largest privately owned postal company, who was injured in the attack.
“You know, I woke up not long before the explosion as if I felt something. And then, about five minutes later, there was a noise. One was very loud; the others were quieter,” explained a resident of a house located near the epicenter of one of the strikes.
In total, the bomb attack damaged six residential buildings, eight administrative buildings, four cars, three shopping pavilions, and four exits of a metro station in Kharkiv.
Photo credits: Russian attack on Kharkiv on 08.11.2024 / Photo: Oleksandr Manchenko for Gwara Media
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- Since February 24, 2022, Russian attacks have damaged more than 8,300 residential buildings in Kharkiv, said Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov on Ukrainian TV.
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