Several employees die
Moscow attacks postal center in Kharkiv region
October 22, 2023, 8:23 a.m
Russian missiles hit a Ukrainian postal depot at night. According to the Kharkiv governor, it is a “purely civilian area.” Several people die and at least 16 are injured. The bullets are said to have come from the Belgorod border region.
According to Ukrainian sources, at least six people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a postal warehouse in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv. Sixteen other people were injured in the incident the evening before in the village of Korotych, Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synegubow said on Telegram.
As Synegubow explained, the victims of the “occupiers’ attack” were employees of the Nova Pocha postal company. The victims are between 19 and 42 years old. Seven of the injured are therefore in mortal danger. “The doctors are fighting for their lives,” said the Kharkiv governor. He described the area hit as a “purely civilian area.” According to the Interior Ministry, a total of 22 people were in the depot at 2:30 a.m. local time. As the regional prosecutor’s office reports, S-300 rockets were fired from the Russian border region of Belgorod. Two of them hit the warehouse.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj published a video online that shows the heavily damaged Nova Poshta warehouse. Zelensky expressed his condolences to the victims’ families and called for a tough response to “Russian terror.” “We must increase the pressure on the terrorist state,” he wrote on Telegram. “We must confront Russian terror on the front line every day with our results; we must further strengthen the unity of the world in the fight against terror.”
The federal government is guaranteeing a further 200 million euros for reconstruction
Meanwhile, the federal government pledged a further 200 million euros in development aid for Ukraine. As the German Press Agency learned, SPD State Secretary for Development Jochen Flasbarth promised help during a visit to the capital Kiev and the port city of Mykolaiv in the south of the country. The money is to be used for education, health and drinking water supplies and urban reconstruction. The funds are expected to flow into various programs this year.
According to its own information, the Development Ministry has made around one billion euros available for civil support to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression. From the federal government’s perspective, reconstruction cannot wait until the end of the war. “We have to help with reconstruction because it is part of the Ukrainians’ internal willingness to resist,” said Flasbarth. You have to repair what is broken – despite the risk of renewed destruction.