Eight people were killed and six wounded when an aircraft bomb hit an apartment building in Kharkiv around 4 p.m. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 38 people were rescued in the same building, 2 of whom were unblocked from under the rubble.
"Today shells hit residential areas, the city center, the hospital, the university. Civilians went to pharmacies and grocery stores. Shelling with rockets and volley fire is a war crime!
Northern Saltovka, Novaya Bavaria, the city center were hit...And as a result of an air strike on Novobavarsky Avenue, a multi-story building was completely destroyed. Many people are still under the rubble. The number of victims is being established," reports Oleg Sinegub, head of the military administration of the Kharkiv region.
Sinegub also confirmed the destruction of the building of the Kharkiv city administration loss of life.
"Because of the shelling of the building of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration 7 people were killed, 24 people were injured, among them a child. This is only preliminary data", - reports Oleg Sinegub.
In addition to the aforementioned 6 people who died in the apartment building, there are also reports of a mother and child dying in front of a food stall in a bedroom community of Kharkiv.
As frontnews reported, residential areas of Kharkiv were also bombed the day before.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel called the shelling of Kharkiv a war crime.
"I spoke to Dmitry Kuleba. The shelling against peaceful infrastructure in Kharkiv violates the laws of war. The EU stands unwaveringly on the side of Ukraine at this dramatic moment," Borrel said in a statement.
