President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a building had been “totally destroyed” in Wednesday night’s attack, which he said “had no justification and the impotence of the aggressor. “
“We will forgive, we will take revenge,” he wrote on the Telegram app.
The raid of a chimney in the construction of the northeastern city, Mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram.
“Unfortunately, the number of dead and wounded in the bombing of the Saltivka district increased to six dead and wounded,” regional governor Oleg Synehubov said on Telegram.
Kharkiv was a Russian target in the early days of the war, but his infantrymen were unable to take the city. While Moscow has now moved its concentrated army to eastern and southern Ukraine, Kharkiv continues to suffer airstrikes.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, saying it needed to “demilitarize” its neighbors and Russian-speaking communities there, but thousands of people were killed and millions of Ukrainians fled.
Ukraine, which broke free from Russian rule when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, accused Moscow of undertaking a style of imperial conquest.
Moscow annexed the southern Peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and supported the separatist territories of Donetsk and Luhansk.
In the past it thought Crimea was a rear base for its war in Ukraine, but the region has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks.
On Tuesday, an ammunition depot in the north of the peninsula was engulfed in flames and then plumes of smoke were seen rising at one point from the Russian army base in central Crimea, the Russian daily Kommersant reported. Explosions destroyed fighter jets at a Russian naval air base there last Tuesday. week.
Ukraine has officially assumed the duty of the attacks, but has alluded to them. Ukraine’s obvious ability to strike deeper into Russian-occupied territory, either with some kind of weapon or through sabotage, signals a shift in the conflict.
On Wednesday, Russia’s RIA news firm cited resources such as that the commander of its Black Sea fleet, Igor Osipov, had been replaced by a new leader, Viktor Sokolov.
If confirmed, the move would mark one of the most significant layoffs of an army officer to date in a war in which Russia has suffered heavy losses in the corps of workers and equipment.
The state-owned RIA cited the resources as meaning that the new leader had been taken to members of the fleet’s army council in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.
The Black Sea Fleet, which has a respected history in Russia, has suffered several humiliations since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, which Moscow calls a “special army operation. “
One of the maximum losses publicized was the flagship Moskva, which sank in the Black Sea in April.