Russian drone attacks on Kharkiv, east Ukraine kill two and injure dozens. Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of war crimes after drones attack Kharkiv, leaving many wounded, including children.
Russian drones have struck Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv, killing two people and wounding dozens, the city’s mayor Ihor Terekhov has said.
“For the second time in a week, the enemy launched a combined attack, launching seven ‘Shaheed’ at residential areas, hospitals, and the city’s infrastructure,” Terekhov said in a Telegram message on Sunday, referring to Iranian-made Shahed drones.
The swarm of drones also targeted a military hospital, a shopping centre and apartment blocks, he said.
Five of the 35 people wounded in the attack overnight were children. At least 13 have been hospitalized, including a teenage girl who is in serious condition.
“The events of yesterday evening were indeed very, very violent in Kharkiv, seeing really the brunt of this war in many ways throughout the course of the last several months,” said Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi, reporting from Kyiv.
“Ukraine’s military said that servicemen were undergoing treatment in this medical center at the time of the attack and they’re accusing Russia of carrying out a war crime, of violating norms of international humanitarian law in what they described as a deliberate and targeted shelling of this medical facility,” Basravi said.
