UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Jul 19 — Around 4 a.m., the Russian military attacked a residential area in the center of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, with two Iskander-M missiles, injuring nine people, including a 14-year-old boy, reported Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor.
Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and airstrikes often, even more so since Russia launched a new ground offensive north and northeast of the region in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi directions in May.
According to Syniehubov, all the injured are in the hospital with shrapnel wounds and are not in danger of death.
“The first hit [of a Russian missile] was near a house. Nine cars burned down. The windows of a nine-story and a five-story building, the roof and windows of a two-story residential building, and two shops were damaged. The second hit damaged administrative buildings, the windows of an not constructed five-story building, and a house,” said Syniehubov.
“It’s not the first [Russian] strike [on this neighborhood], it’s the fifth,” says Chuhuiv resident Viacheslav. The attack damaged the windows in his house.
Residents of the neighborhood that the Russians shelled today continue to clean up the glass in their homes and on the street.
Photo credits: Russian missile attack on the center of Chuhuiv / Photo: Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media
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