KHARKIV, UKRAINE, Apr 6 — At about midnight, the Russian army hit Kharkiv with a double-tap missile attack, reports Serhii Bolvinov, the head of the regional department of the National Police. The Shevchenkivskiy district of the city came under S-300 fire. According to the Kharkiv city council, Russian strikes killed six civilians and injured at least 11.
Olena lives in one of the buildings damaged by the explosions. She was at home, when the shelling started, and the blast wave blew almost all the windows in her flat out of the frames. “We saw the fire after the hit, and went to the corridor [to wait to attack out],” the woman told Gwara Media during the night.
Currently, city workers are cleaning up the debris in the aftermath of the attack. One of them told GW that the exact scale of the damage is unknown, “but the owners of the damaged flats approach us, let us into their flats, and we cover up their windows [with wooden panels].”
Blast waves from two missiles smashed about 3,600 windows, damaged nine high-rise apartment buildings and three dormitories. The explosions also damaged two kindergartens, two schools, a petrol station, and a few dozen shops.
Serhii Prokopenko, Daria Levchenko, Victoria Mankovska, Ivan Samoilov, and Yana Sliemzina worked on this story. It got scarier to work in Kharkiv lately, but we keep doing it: it’s important for the world to know what Russia does to our home. Thank you for following our reporting from the region — you can also support us on Patreon, BMC, or PayPal.
UPD from Apr 6, 5:23 p.m.: Inconsistency in the first paragraph fixed.
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