KYIV, Ukraine — A missile strike on a mail depot within the japanese metropolis of Kharkiv killed six folks, Ukrainian officers stated Sunday, as Ukraine reported a file variety of bomb assaults within the southern Kherson area.
An extra 17 folks have been wounded within the blast late Saturday, which is believed to have been brought on by a Russian S-300 rocket, Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov stated on social media. All the victims have been workers of personal Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova Poshta.
The Ukrainian-held front-line metropolis has been on the coronary heart of fierce combating as each Moscow and Kyiv push for battlefield breakthroughs amid the looming onset of wintry circumstances. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his conflict in opposition to Ukraine in February final yr.
In an announcement, Nova Poshta stated the air raid siren had sounded simply moments earlier than the assault, leaving these contained in the depot with no time to achieve shelter. It introduced that Sunday can be a day of mourning for the agency.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the strike as an assault on an “peculiar civilian object.”
“We have to reply to Russian terror each day with outcomes on the entrance line. And, much more so, we have to strengthen international unity to be able to combat in opposition to this terror,” he wrote on social media. “Russia won’t be able to attain something by means of terror and homicide. The top consequence for all terrorists is identical: the necessity to face accountability for what they’ve achieved.”
Elsewhere within the Kharkiv area, three folks have been wounded in Russian shelling on town of Kupiansk, Syniehubov stated.
Officers in southern Ukraine stated Sunday the Russian navy had used a file variety of aerial bombs over the nation’s Kherson area within the earlier 24 hours.
Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian navy’s Operational Command South, stated that 36 missiles had been recorded over the realm, with some villages being hit by a number of strikes.
In a report launched Saturday, the Institute for the Examine of Warfare stated that Russian forces could possibly be diversifying the combo of missiles, guided bombs, and drones utilized in strikes on Ukraine. The Washington-based assume tank speculated that the change could possibly be a part of an try to seek out gaps in Ukraine’s air defenses forward of additional strikes over the winter.
Ukrainian officers additionally reported Sunday that two folks had been killed by Russian shelling within the Donetsk area. A 58-year-old man within the village of Kalinovka died in his dwelling, whereas a 61-year-old man was killed within the city of Vasiukovka from a direct hit to his automobile, in response to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s workplace.
In a separate incident, Nikopol navy district chief Yevhen Yevtushenko stated {that a} 71-year-old man had been killed the day before today whereas fishing at a neighborhood reservoir. He stated the sufferer had been discovered with a fishing rod in his hand, and accused Russian forces of intentionally concentrating on him with artillery hearth.
In the meantime, Moscow-appointed officers stated Sunday that that they had intercepted three Ukrainian missiles headed towards Russian-occupied Crimea. Vladimir Saldo, the Kremlin-installed chief of the Russian-occupied portion of Ukraine’s Kherson area, stated all three missiles had been shot down.
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