At least six people were killed and 17 injured Saturday by Russian missile attacks on a postal depot in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, local officials reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media of what appears to be a badly damaged warehouse next to debris and a container bearing the logo of Ukrainian postal operator Nova Poshta.
Kharkov region. A Russian missile struck a post terminal. Ordinary civilian object. Unfortunately, there are killed. My condolences to all of their close ones!
As of now, it is known that at least 13 people were injured. First responders and all services are working on the spot.… pic.twitter.com/gN94DOIJtL
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 21, 2023
The six people killed and the injured were “employees of the company who were inside the Nova Poshta terminal”, said the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegoubov. “The victims, aged 19 to 42, were injured by shrapnel and blast (from the explosions),” he added. A total of 17 people were injured, the Kharkiv region prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday.
“Doctors are fighting for their lives”
Earlier, Oleg Sinegoubov said that some of them were hospitalized in serious condition. “Doctors are fighting for their lives,” he said. Serguiï Nojka, an employee of Nova Poshta, said the strike had hit “the neighboring depot, but also ours – the windows and shutters flew away”. “It’s not the first time,” he said.
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces in the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, fired S-300 missiles, and two of them hit the warehouse. “Analysis of the debris continues at the scene in order to establish the exact number of injured and dead,” office spokesman Dmytro Tchoubenko told state media Suspilne.