UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Jul 22 — At night, Russian troops launched an Iskander-M missile attack on Derhachi in the Kharkiv region. The attack damaged an educational institution, civilian enterprises, and apartment buildings. The Russian missile attack did not injure anyone, reported the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and air strikes 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.
Viacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi City Military Administration, said that Russians hit a safe space for children in the building where they spent time after online classes at school.
“In this building was an educational complex, a kindergarten, which worked as an after-school safe space. Children could gather, socialize, study, work with psychologists, and play sports here. The Russians hit the center of the building and destroyed it,” he said.
Oleksandr Kulik, Head of the Information Department of the Derhachi City Council, told Gwara Media that classes in the safe space of this educational institution were suspended in May, after the Russian offensive began again in the north of Kharkiv region.
According to local officials, the Russians target educational and cultural institutions to prevent children from studying offline even in the future.
Photo credits: Destroyed educational institution in Derhachi / Ivan Samoilov for Gwara Media
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- 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.
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