(Reuters) – Russian troops stormed a multi-storey building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, injuring 21 people and prompting the evacuation of some residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Kharkiv, 30 kilometers from the Russian border, has been under attack from Moscow since the Kremlin's military launched its February 2022 offensive on its tiny neighbor.
Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging system, said that the Russians planted a bomb that was targeted and that 60 civilians were evacuated from the building. An 8-year-old child and two 17-year-olds were among the injured, he added.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the strike and reiterated his call for more weapons from Kyiv's Western allies to defend against Russian strikes.
“Ukraine needs comprehensive long-range capabilities, and we are working to convince our partners of this,” he wrote on social media.
In the south, a Russian airstrike killed two people on Saturday in the city of Nikopol, the regional governor said.
In the eastern city of Kurakhove, one of the focal points of Russia's gradual advance on the industrial city of Donetsk, one person was killed in a Russian artillery strike, regional prosecutors said.
And local authorities in the Sumy region say that a Russian plane hit the power infrastructure in the town of Shostka.
Sumy has been another target of frequent Russian attacks and lies opposite the Kursk region in southern Russia, where Ukrainian forces launched an offensive last month.
