KYIV (Reuters) – Russian missile strikes on Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine killed six people and injured 11 on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
These missile attacks damaged municipal and transport infrastructure and destroyed a printing house, said the mayor of Kharkiv and the regional governor.
Smoke was billowing from one of the printing house’s buildings as rescuers removed bodies from body bags, a Reuters journalist at the scene reported.
“This is a purely civilian site, it is a printing house that prints books,” regional police chief Volodimir Tymoshenko told reporters.
He said two missiles hit the printing house itself and another fell nearby.
Oleksandr Filchakov, Kharkiv regional prosecutor, said around 50 people were in the printing house at the time of the bombing.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, is an important center of activity for Ukrainian printing.
The city’s mayor said on national television that 15 Russian missiles were fired in the attack. Seven people were also injured in the city’s surroundings, Governor Oleh Synehoubov said.
Kharkiv and its region have been the target of a new Russian offensive for almost two weeks after a first attempt to break through in this sector in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of the country.
(Report by Max Hunder and Anastasiia Malenko, French version by Bertrand Boucey, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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