Russian strike on police station kills police officer, injures 30 in Kharkiv

This deadly strike took place as Washington announced new military aid to Ukraine of $425 million.

The city of Kharkiv, located less than thirty kilometers from the Russian border, hit again. Two Russian missiles which fell on a police station in this town in north-eastern Ukraine on Friday, November 1, killed at least one police officer and injured 30 other people. Among them are “four civilians”, announced the head of the Ukrainian police on Facebook.

Ivan Vyguivsky also clarified that the person killed, Andriï Matvienko, had the rank of colonel. He also posted photos showing a large crater, towering piles of debris and a police officer covered in blood being treated in an ambulance. According to Interior Minister Igor Klymenko, three injured police officers are also in serious condition. “Doctors are fighting for their lives”he said on Telegram.

Kharkiv is very regularly hit by deadly strikes, particularly on residential areas. On Wednesday, three people, including two minors, were killed there and around thirty others injured by a Russian bombing. If “nearly a million” of children live near the front line, “everywhere, they suffer the horrors of war”, “no one is spared”alerted again Friday on franceinfo, Adeline Hazan, president of Unicef ​​France who returned from a trip to Ukraine. This “third winter of war will be the most difficult for Ukrainian children”she believes.

At the same time, on Friday, the United States announced new military aid to Ukraine amounting to $425 million. This new envelope, announced a few days before the American presidential election, includes anti-aircraft defense equipment, artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons, detailed the American Department of Defense in a press release.

These weapons will be taken directly from the existing stocks of the American army. Washington “will continue the work (…) to respond to Ukraine's urgent demands on the battlefield to defend itself against Russian aggression”, notes the Pentagon press release.