At least ten people died on Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on a town in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, according to local authorities. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram that seventeen other people were wounded in the offensive.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack targeted a busy intersection in Pechenihy where a post office and shops are located surrounded by residential buildings. Zelenskyy posted images of destroyed structures, vehicles in flames and emergency personnel transporting the wounded, and vowed that Ukraine would respond to the attack.
Syniehubov confirmed that the bombardment damaged a dozen private buildings, a café, a post office, a shop and at least seven vehicles. The Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office said that according to preliminary information, Russia used two small Banderol cruise missiles in the operation. Russia has made no comment on the attack.
Hours earlier, Zaporizhzhia governor Yevheny Balitsky reported that at least one civilian died and sixteen were wounded after a Ukrainian drone attack on a bus stop in Energodar, a city that is home to Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Mayor Maxim Pukhov said that three of the wounded are in critical condition.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russian forces launched 147 drones the previous night, of which 111 were neutralised. At least two civilians died in Zaporizhzhia from the impact of Russian drones. The attacks are occurring as Kyiv and Moscow intensify operations in enemy territories, with civilian deaths at an unprecedented rate since the start of the conflict.
