A Russian missile fired at an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, killed one person and injured 42 others, amid calls from Volodymyr Zelensky for permission to directly attack Russian military personnel.
The body of a 94-year-old man was recovered from the ninth floor of the building, which was damaged after a KAB-250 bomb with a UMPK module hit the building.
Among the injured were three children, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said, while other officials added that residents could still be trapped under the rubble.
Photos taken at the scene showed firefighters extinguishing the flames from the upper section of the building, while other emergency services workers moved civilians away from the area.
Several elderly people with serious injuries were seen being carried out of the building.
Zelensky said in his evening speech this afternoon that three more guided bombs had fallen on villages in Kharkiv, where population centers have been a frequent target of Russian attacks near the Russian border.
A Russian missile fired at an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, killed one person and injured 42 others.
Several elderly people with serious injuries were seen being carried out of the building.
Photos taken at the scene showed firefighters extinguishing the flames from the upper section of the building.
Odesa was also the target of a drone conflict, with two people tragically killed in the port city today, authorities confirmed.
In his speech, Zelensky said Russia had also attacked the Sumy and Donetsk regions with guided bombs on Sunday.
He said the Russian military carried out “at least 100 such airstrikes” daily.
Also on Sunday, Russian airstrikes killed one person in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, local officials said, as Moscow’s troops closed in on the key logistics hub.
More than 20,000 people – almost half its population – have fled the city since August, while Russian attacks over the past two weeks have cut off water and electricity to many of its remaining residents.
An injured man tries to send a message with his mobile phone at the site of a residential building damaged by shelling in Kharkiv
A person sits near the crash site after a Russian aerial bomb hit a multi-storey residential building in Kharkiv.
A woman stands in front of a residential building damaged as a result of Russian shelling with a guided air bomb on September 15, 2024 in Kharkiv.
“At around 11:00 (08:00 GMT), the enemy shelled the western part of the city… Unfortunately, one person was killed,” the Pokrovsk military administration said on Telegram.
Russia has been advancing toward Pokrovsk for months, coming within 10 kilometers (six miles) of its eastern outskirts, according to the local administration.
The city is located at the intersection of railway and road routes supplying Ukrainian troops and towns across the eastern front line and has long been a target of Moscow’s military.
Russian strikes damaged two overpasses in the city earlier this week, including one connecting Pokrovsk with the neighboring town of Myrnograd, local media reported.
Other eastern cities, such as Bakhmut and Mariupol, suffered massive bombing before falling to Russian forces.
Firefighters assist an injured person after Russia attacked a high-rise building in Kharkiv with a KAB-250 bomb with a UMPK module in Kharkiv
Russia has denied intentionally targeting civilian populations.
Russia has denied intentionally targeting civilian populations, but Zelensky said the latest series of attacks He stressed the need for Ukraine’s Western partners to provide weapons and air defence systems and permission to use weapons against targets located inside Russia in order to save lives.
Zelensky called for quick decisions to be made on long-range strikes “to destroy Russian military aircraft where they are stationed. These are obvious and logical decisions.”
“Every Russian attack of this nature, every instance of Russian terrorism, like today in Kharkiv… this shows that there must be long-range capability and it must be sufficient.”
He said appropriate decisions were expected in the first instance from the United States, France, Germany and Italy, “those whose decision could help save lives.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the West would fight Russia directly if it allowed Ukraine to attack Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles.
