Ukrainian authorities on Sunday reported that the loss of life toll from the Russian bombing of a DIY retailer within the north-eastern metropolis of Kharkiv has reached 12 individuals.
Ukrainian Inside Minister Ihor Kylmenko wrote on the social media platform Telegram that the variety of injured within the assault has risen to 43, with 16 individuals nonetheless lacking.
The fireplace that broke out after the airstrike was lastly put out early on Sunday, Klymenko stated, after 16 hours of labor by firefighters.
Russia attacked the shop with at the least one glide bomb on Saturday. It later claimed Ukraine had hidden an arms depot within the retailer.
“The tactic of human shields is being utilized in Kharkiv – they [the Ukrainians] have arrange a army camp and a command publish in a procuring centre, which was found by our intelligence service,” the state company TASS quoted an unnamed consultant of the Russian management as saying.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated round 200 individuals have been within the Epicentr residence enchancment retailer on the time of the assault.
Zelensky described the assault as “one other manifestation of Russian insanity” and as soon as once more requested Ukraine’s allies to provide air defence techniques to guard its civilians.
Kharkiv, which lies solely 30 kilometres from the Russian border, has been one of many worst-hit cities in Moscow’s bombing marketing campaign since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
