Three killed in Russian airstrike on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region

Three people were killed in an attack on a residential building in the village of Kivsharivka in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region on Sunday, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov said on Monday morning.

One woman was rescued from the rubble of the five-storey building hit in the airstrike, Synyehubov wrote on Sunday, adding that rescue operations had been “complicated by constant shelling”.

Another Russian guided aerial bomb attack on the regional capital Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, injured at least 15 people on Sunday, according to the regional police administration.

Russia struck residential buildings in Kharkiv with a high-explosive FAB-250 bomb, injuring four police officers, the regional police said.

Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region has been targeted heavily by airstrikes since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The latest attacks come as Ukraine faces an intensifying Russian offensive in the east of the country.

On Saturday, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces were holding back “one of the most powerful offensives by the Russians since the start of the full-scale invasion” and that active combat operations were leaving Ukrainian units needing “continuous replenishment of resources”.