Number of wounded sharply rises after night strike on Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
Russian forces struck the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv (photo: facebook.com/DSNSKHARKIV)
Late in the evening on October 13, Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. As a result of the strike, 57 people were injured, according to the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov.
"In the city of Kharkiv, men aged 79 and 68 and women aged 75, 73, 44, 69, and 74 were injured, while 50 hospital patients suffered acute stress reactions; in the city of Kupiansk, women aged 78, 58, and 71 and men aged 57 and 72 were injured," said the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration.
According to Syniehubov, the enemy attacked the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv with drones and the Saltivskyi district of the city with two guided aerial bombs (KABs).
He also emphasized that power supply had been restored to all consumers after the Russian strike on Kharkiv.
As a result of the strike, a dormitory, an enterprise, a school building, a hospital building, an outbuilding, two non-residential buildings, power networks, and 24 cars were damaged in Kharkiv.
Russian strikes on Kharkiv
On the evening of October 13, explosions occurred in Kharkiv. The city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, and the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, reported that the city was under attack by guided aerial bombs.
The city was hit in the Slobidskyi and Saltivskyi districts. A large fire broke out in the Saltivskyi district.
According to Terekhov, one of the Russian aerial bombs struck the grounds of a medical facility. Preliminary information indicates that one outbuilding was destroyed.
