(Updated) Russian glide bomb attack hits high-rise residential building in Kharkiv, kills at least 3, injures 24

This is a developing story. It will be updated with more information about casualties of the Russian attack on Kharkiv as soon as Gwara Media receives it. 

Update from 5:21 p.m.: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reports that the number of casualties of the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv rose: the attacks through the city killed at least three, and injured 24 people. Rescue operations at the impact sites are ongoing. According to preliminary information, he says, Russians hit the residential neighborhoods of Kharkiv with eight FAB-250 glide bombs.

Terekhov adds that 82 people lived in the destroyed entrance to a nine-story building hit by the Russian glide bomb. Rescuers are trying to establish connection with them to figure out if there are people trapped under the debris.

UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Sep 24 — During the day, Russia attacked at least four districts of Kharkiv with glide bombs, with one of them hitting a high-rise apartment building in the Kyivskyi district of the city. The attack killed at least three people, and injured 22, reported Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast governor. 

Russia attacks Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-city, often because of the city’s proximity to the Russian border and the frontline. 

Syniehubov adds that people might be trapped under the debris of a high-rise building. 

At about 4:00 a.m. today, Russia attacked the city too, utilizing, in particular, a Tornado-S multiple rocket launcher system to strike the city. The missile hit the ground in a residential quarter. 

Stopping Russian airstrikes launched from across the border is one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges in the war because of restrictions on hitting jet launchers inside Russia with America-supplied long-range munitions (like Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS.)

Washington Post, referring to their sources in the White House and U.S. Defense Department, wrote that “officials say that they have not heard a convincing argument from Ukrainian leaders that the possible targets within missile range in Russia would make a significant difference in Ukraine’s path to victory.”

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