At least two dead
Russians attack hardware store in Kharkiv with glide bombs
25.05.2024, 17:14
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The Russian attackers repeatedly attack civilian targets in Ukraine with their glide bombs and rockets. Now they are targeting a hardware store in Kharkiv, where around 200 people are said to be at the time of the attack. There are dead and injured.
According to official reports, a hardware store was hit by at least one glide bomb during a Russian air raid on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. At the time of the attack, around 200 people were in the store, as President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Platform X. “There were dead and injured,” Zelensky wrote about the “brutal attack” by the Russian military.
The attack by the Russian military is, he said, “another manifestation of Russian madness.” “Only madmen like (Kremlin chief Vladimir) Putin are capable of killing and terrorizing people in such a heinous way,” said the Ukrainian president.
Initial video footage showed thick clouds of smoke over the hardware store premises, as well as a corpse in front of the building. According to Ukrainian media reports, at least two people were killed in the hardware store.
According to the regional civil defense, at least 33 people were injured in the attack. “This attack on Kharkiv is another manifestation of Russian madness,” the region’s governor Oleg Synegubov said on Telegram.
In his post, Zelensky renewed the call for more air defense systems for his country. “If Ukraine had enough air defense systems and modern fighter aircraft, Russian attacks like this would be impossible.” He appealed to Ukraine’s supporters: “We need a significant increase in air defense and sufficient opportunities to destroy Russian terrorists.”
For more than two years, Ukraine has been fending off a Russian war of aggression with Western support. Russia repeatedly attacks civilian targets. In the past, the focus was particularly on energy infrastructure.