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October 21, 2024 – 05:19
(Keystone-ATS) At least 12 people were injured Sunday evening in Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine, police and local authorities said. The bombings caused power cuts in at least part of the city.
These bombings come as the Ukrainian authorities fear the start of a new Russian campaign of attacks against the country’s civilian energy infrastructure, as in the winter of 2022 and 2023, a means then used by Moscow to submerge millions of Ukrainians. in the cold and the dark.
“Around 10 p.m., Russians shelled three districts of Kharkiv[…]12 civilians were injured, including seven women aged 22 to 83 and five men aged 21 to 38,” police announced in a statement published on Telegram .[…)12civilsontétéblessésdontseptfemmesâgéesde22à83ansetcinqhommesde21à38ans »aannoncélapolicedansuncommuniquépubliésurTelegram
According to this source, “apartment buildings, garages, gas stations, houses and cars have been damaged” and rescuers are mobilized to the affected sites.
Electricity cut
“Due to enemy strikes, there is no electricity in certain parts of the city,” added the Ukrainian police, who however did not specify how many homes were affected by these cuts.
The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegoubov, and the mayor of the big city, Oleg Terekhov, confirmed on Telegram power outages in “part” of the city. The two officials also did not detail the exact extent of the damage, nor did they specify which energy infrastructure had been affected.
Kharkiv, a large city in the eponymous region in northeastern Ukraine, is very regularly the target of Russian fire. It is located less than 30 kilometers from the border with Russia.
In May, the Russian army attempted an offensive in this region bordering Russia, with the official aim of creating a buffer zone and thus limiting Ukrainian attacks against military or industrial targets on Russian soil. But this assault did not have the desired effect, kyiv continuing to target Russian territory on a daily basis.
In Kryvyï Rig (south), the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, a missile strike also injured three people during the night and damaged homes, according to the town’s mayor, Oleksandr Vilkoul.
On the other side of the front, two people were injured in Ukrainian strikes against the Russian region of Belgorod, according to its governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, who reported damage to civilian infrastructure
