Missile strike: 43 injured in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region
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Kyiv: At least 43 people, including 12 children were injured after a missile struck in the parking lot of a residential building in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, officials said.
The injured included a one-year-old toddler and a 10-month-old infant.
According to Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, an alleged Russian Iskander missile struck the building in the town of Pervomaisky at about 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Pervomaisky is located about 90 km south of the major city of Kharkiv and relatively far from the current fighting hotspots.
The injured included a one-year-old toddler and a 10-month-old infant.
Kostin added that targeting residential buildings amounted to another war crime from Russia.
Kharkiv Governor Oleg Sinegubov posted several pictures of the damaged building on Telegram, showing smashed windows, dark smoke clouds, and an overturned car.
"At least half of the neighborhood is in an uninhabitable state," Anton Orekhov, the chairman of Pervomaiskyi said to local media.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia will be held responsible for Tuesday’s missile strike.
"Russian terrorists want to become exemplary in the way they destroy life. We will become exemplary in the way we protect life and in the way life then responds, justly and inevitably to every blow inflicted on every terrorist," he said.
"And the enemy will be held accountable for this strike, as well as for all their other strikes."
With inputs from IANS