Two Russian missiles have struck the centre of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported. The city’s Kyivsky district has been affected.
“One of the missiles hit Kharkiv’s residential quarters. We now know that one residential building is on fire and one person was injured,” Terekhov wrote.
Preliminary reports point to S-300 missiles, he clarified.
Three people have been wounded when a missile hit the residential quarters, head of the regional administration Oleh Siniehubov noted, specifying that they are a woman, 54, and two men, 51 and 55. The woman was rushed to hospital with fragmentation wounds, the men are getting treated at the site.
Ukraine’s national emergency service is working at the missile hit site to clear out the debris. Siniehubov added that the information on injuries and damages is being clarified now.
The second missile struck a university building in Kharkiv, Siniehubov reported. It was Kharkiv National Academy of Urban Economy that was damaged in the missile attack, rector Volodymyr Babayev told Suspilne.
According to the Kharkiv mayor, residential buildings have been damaged but won’t collapse.
UPD: The Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office has published photos of the destroyed university.
According to the prosecutor’s office, one Russian missile landed on the university, while the other fell near a residential building. Five people were injured: a university security guard, a man, 58, two women, 54 each, and an elderly woman, 83. The agency believes that the two S-300 missiles could have been launched from Russia’s Belgorod region.
