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A rescue worker searches with a dog for victims in a residential building that was damaged after a Russian bomb attack. Photo: Andrii Marienko/AP/dpa
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Several people were killed and dozens injured in a bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday, according to Ukrainian authorities. According to the authorities, the number of injured had risen to 56 by the evening, including three children. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on X that three people had been killed when a Russian glide bomb hit a residential building. In the afternoon there had been talk of 19 and later 40 injured.
Pictures showed severe damage to the building. Selensky condemned the new act of destruction by Russian terrorists. He expressed his condolences to the relatives and once again called for help from the West.
"Russian terror with glide bombs must and can be stopped," said Selensky. This would require determination and decisions by allies to protect the lives of people in the country from Russian missile terror.
Selensky had repeatedly called for more air defense systems. Above all, the bases close to the border on Russian territory, from which the missiles are launched, must be destroyed, he said.
Kharkiv, which is not far from the Russian border, has been the target of massive Russian attacks for months. Civilian objects are repeatedly hit there. Dozens of civilians have already been killed or injured.
22.06.2024, 18:28
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