UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Mar 28 — At about 3:53 p.m. on March 27, the Russian military attacked Kharkiv, hitting the central residential area. The Russian attack killed a 59-year-old man and injured 19 people, including four children.
According to the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, the attack destroyed two high-rise buildings and damaged at least 14 buildings. Among them are one preschool and one school, said Oleksandr Filchakov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office. City workers cleaned up the damage after the attack.
City Council spokesperson Yurii Sydorenko added that residents of the damaged buildings were provided with accommodation in dormitories.
The Russian attack injured at least 19 people. Among them are four children aged three months, 1.8 years, ten years, and 13 years. Everyone is being provided with medical aid. All relevant services were working at the hit site.
The head of the Kharkiv Regional Police, Volodymyr Tymoshko, noted that the Russians attacked Kharkiv in the middle of the day because “At this time most people are in the street. That is why there is a large number of injured people. That’s why, unfortunately, there are dead. There are no military facilities nearby, the attack hit a residential area.”
There is information that the Russians attacked Kharkiv with a D-30 UMPB munition [a unified interspecies planning munition — ed]. According to Oleh Syniehubov and Volodymyr Tymoshko, this is a new type of weapon. It is quite powerful, and the explosion intensity [of this type of missile] is average between an air bomb and a rocket. A 30-cm caliber munition can fly up to 90 km. It can be launched both from an airplane and from multiple launch rocket systems.
“I think it was a test on the civilian population of Kharkiv. It was very cynical. This is the first time such a munition has been used in Kharkiv,” added Syniehubov.
Photo credits: Russian Federation attacked a residential area in Kharkiv / Photo: Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media
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