Photo: Russia hits Kharkiv with ballistic missile, apartment buildings damaged, gas leak reported
On the morning of 20 February, Russian forces launched a missile strike on Kharkiv. The city’s Slobidskyi district came under fire.
This was reported with reference to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office on Telegram.
According to preliminary data, an Iskander-M ballistic missile was used in the attack. As a result of the strike, multi-storey residential buildings were damaged. A gas leak was also reported.
Emergency services are working at the scene. Information regarding casualties and the extent of the destruction is being clarified.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the strike was carried out near residential high-rise buildings, damaging seven apartment blocks and an administrative building.
Two cars caught fire due to the shelling, and windows were blown out in flats.
A gas leak was also recorded at the scene, but emergency crews promptly localised the problem.
In January, Kharkiv suffered 75 Russian attacks: nine people were killed and 95 injured.
On the night of 1 February, Russian forces carried out a large-scale attack on Ukraine, deploying 90 drones, around 60 of which were Shahed-type attack UAVs.
In Dnipro, two people — a woman and a man — were killed as a result of a hostile drone strike.
