Russian airstrike on residential building kills 8 in Kharkiv

An airstrike on a residential building in Kharkiv claimed the lives of eight people, six more were injured, Report informs, citing zn.ua that the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.

The shell hit between the 2nd and 3rd entrances of a five-story residential building. 38 people were saved, two of them were released from the rubble. Employees of the State Emergency Service are carrying out search and rescue operations on the scene of the airstrike.

Before that, there was a missile attack on Kharkiv’s Liberty Square, as a result of which all the windows of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration and neighboring buildings were broken. Seven people died, 24 were injured, 11 of them were hospitalized.