A Russian missile strike on three different areas of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv has injured at least 44 people, the Kharkiv Prosecutor General’s Office said on Sunday.
According to Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov, the barrage of missiles struck the Kharkiv Sports Palace, a shopping centre in the Saltivskyi district and a residential building in the city’s Kyiv district.
The Russian military had “attacked in broad daylight places where hundreds of Kharkiv residents go every day,” Synyehubov said in a subsequent post, adding: “This is real terrorism!”
A search and rescue operation at the Kharkiv Sports Palace was ongoing, Synyehubov added, where he said that one employee had already been pulled safely from the rubble, but that there may still be others trapped underneath, after at least six incoming Russian missiles struck the sports complex and the surrounding area.
“Russia is terrorising Kharkiv again,” Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky wrote on Telegram shortly after the attack on Sunday, stressing that all the missiles had been used to target civilian infrastructure.