- Missile Strike in Ukraine Injures Dozens, Including Children
- Residential Area Targeted: Accusations of War Crime
- Damage and Devastation: Neighborhood Uninhabitable
Local officials report that at least 43 people, including 12 children, were injured when a missile struck the parking lot of a residential building in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
At approximately 13:30 local time, what is believed to be a Russian Iskander missile impacted the town of Pervomaisky.
General Prosecutor of Ukraine Andriy Kostin stated that the area contained only residential structures.
According to reports, a one-year-old and a 10-month-old were among the injured.
Mr. Kostin stated that Russia’s targeting of residential structures constituted yet another war crime.
The Kharkiv regional governor, Oleg Sinegubov, uploaded several images of the damaged structure to Telegram. They displayed broken windows, dense smoke, and an overturned vehicle.
Pervomaiskyi chair Anton Orekhov told local media, “At least half of the neighbourhood is in an uninhabitable state.”
Russia has previously denied targeting civilians but has yet to comment on the incident.
Pervomaisky is located approximately 90 kilometers (50 miles) south of the main city of Kharkiv and relatively far from the current hotspots of fighting, which are primarily in the Donbas region.
In the early days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, however, the region northeast of Kharkiv was the scene of intense combat as Ukrainian forces fought back Russian attempts to advance further into the country.
Russia reported earlier on Tuesday that it had shot down five Ukrainian drones aimed at Moscow and its surrounding area. But no casualties or damage were reported.
