UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Mar. 2 — On Mar. 2, Russia attacked an apartment building in Kharkiv, injuring a woman, a 10-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy among them, reported Ihor Terekhov, Kharkiv mayor.
A 12-year-old boy got the acoustic trauma, while a woman and girl suffered an acute stress reaction.
Terekhov said that Russian forces struck a flat on the eight floor of the apartment building with a Molnia drone. The mayor added that nobody was inside.
Artem, who lives on the seventh floor, told Gwara Media he was at home when the Russian strike went off. The windows in his apartment were broken and the balcony was damaged. Artem himself was not injured — he says that, at the moment of the explosion, he was standing behind two walls to protect himself.
“I heard how they tried to down the drone, I heard it flying, and then there was an explosion. There was a flash, and it was very loud. At first, I thought it had hit somewhere in houses. I went outside and saw a lot of debris. Then I saw that it had hit the eighth floor, one floor above me,” he said.
Lilia, the other resident of the apartment building, said she heard attempts to down a drone. “They shot it down, and then there was a loud explosion,” she said.
One window in her part of the building was broken, but her apartment was not damaged.
According to Terekhov, Kharkiv has been under intense shelling over the past two days, with various types of the Russian drones being used.
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