Two people killed and 21 wounded following Russian shelling of Kharkiv

Two people were killed and 21 were wounded as a result of shelling of Ukraine’s Kharkiv by the Russian military. The first victim was reported by Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov; later on, the head of the Kharkiv region Oleh Synehubov clarified that two people had been killed.

“For the second day in a row, at around the same time, the occupying forces strike public transport stops. The result: one person killed and 17 injured, one of them is in critical conditions,” Terekhov wrote earlier today on his Telegram channel.

The mayor noted that the rockets hit, in particular, one of the city’s medical institutions; he asked the residents to remain in shelters.

Earlier today, the head of the Kharkiv region Oleh Synehubov reported that the Chuhuiv, Bohodukhiv, and Izium districts had come under fire. Residential houses and outbuildings got damaged, fires erupted on wheat fields. He added that, overall, the Russian troops had destroyed more than 130 ha of crops.

Yesterday, three civilians were killed in Kharkiv, including one 13-year-old teenager. Furthermore, one more person — a 72-year-old man — was killed in the Bohodukhiv district.