Russian shelling wounded at least 31 people, including nine children, in the small town of Pervomaiskyi in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday, officials said.
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Oleh Synehubov, the Kharkiv region’s governor, said on the Telegram messaging app that the shelling took place at 13:35 Kyiv time (1035 GMT) and several cars were on fire. He said the windows of eight multi-story building were smashed.
He posted several pictures of the building with smashed windows, dark smoke clouds, charred trees, and an overturned car.
“As of 3:00 p.m., we know of a significant number of wounded: 31 people were taken to a hospital (nine of them are children, 2 infants – 1 year, and 10 months),” Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy’s office, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the incident. Moscow has denied deliberately targeting civilians.