Six people killed in missile attack on Kharkiv postal depot were all workers, says regional governor

The six people killed in the Kharkiv missile attack were all workers at the Nova Poshta depot, located in the village of Korotych on the outskirts of Kharkiv city, the regional governor, Oleg Sinegubov, said.

“The victims, aged between 19 and 42, received shrapnel wounds and blast injuries,” he said, AFP reports.

Of the injured being treated in hospital, seven were in a serious condition, Sinegubov said, adding that “Doctors are fighting for their lives.”

The regional prosecutor’s office later updated the number of injured to 17.

Sergiy Nozhka, who works for Nova Poshta, described the condition of some his colleagues as “mild to moderate severity”, adding that “there are some people in a very serious condition”.

He said that a rocket “flew into the neighbouring depot, but at ours too – the windows and shutters flew out. This is not the first time.”

According to the prosecutor’s office, Russian forces in the Belgorod region north of Kharkiv fired S-300 missiles, two of which hit the warehouse.

“Debris analysis continues at the site in order to establish the exact number of injured and dead,” office spokesperson Dmytro Chubenko told Ukraine’s state broadcaster Suspilne.

Separate Russian attacks on villages near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut killed at least two people on Sunday, officials said.

(via AFP agency)