A child dies in a Russian missile attack in the center of Kharkiv hours after the Kupiansk massacre

At least one child has died and another 16 people have been injured this Friday in a new attack carried out by the Russian Army against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to the Ukrainian authorities.

“Kharkov. “A new targeted attack by Russia against civilians,” lamented the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Igor Klimenko, who detailed that “the body of a ten-year-old child has been found among the rubble.”

Thus, he stated in a message on his Telegram account that “two apartment buildings have suffered damage and a three-story residential building has been destroyed,” before adding that firefighters have extinguished the fire that broke out in the area after the attack. .

For his part, the mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terejov, has confirmed the death of the child and has conveyed his condolences to his relatives.. “The enemy's blows fall exclusively on civil infrastructure in Kharkiv,” he stressed in a message on Telegram.

The attack comes a day after the death of more than 50 people in a Russian bombing of the town of Groza, located in Kharkiv, which hit a cafe and a grocery store, as noted by Ukrainian authorities.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke afterward of “a brutal crime”, while Klimenko stressed that “it is a tragedy for Ukraine”. The Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office highlighted that the attack was the one that caused the most deaths in the region since the beginning of the invasion, unleashed on February 24, 2022.