Russian attack injures 43 in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, 12 children among them

Thirty-one people have been injured in Russian shelling of the town of Pervomaisky, Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, head of the regional administration Oleh Syniehubov reports.

UPDATE
UPD: The number of people wounded in the attack on Pervomaisky, Kharkiv region, by the Russian army has risen to 38. The youngest child among the injured is three months old, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

According to head of the regional administration Oleh Syniehubov, Russian forces launched an Iskander missile at the town’s residential area. “The condition of a ten-month-old boy who was taken to ICU has already been stabilised. Other children sustained light fragmentation wounds, bruises, and scratches,” he noted.

UPD2: Syniehubov noted that the number of injured people had risen to 43. Five people were treated at the site. They sustained light or medium-severity injuries.

Nine children are among those injured, including a 10-month-old baby and a year-old toddler. Windows of eight apartment blocks in the town are damaged. Moreover, four cars caught fire, one other car was damaged.

According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, the wounded people have been taken to hospital. Emergency services are working at the site.

The Russian strike damaged an apartment block. Syniehubov said that the shelling, according to preliminary reports, was caused by a high-explosive shell. The explosion occurred around 1:35 PM local time.

Earlier in the morning, the death toll in the Russian Shahed drone attack on the city of Sumy rose to three. Moreover, 21 people were injured, and a day of mourning was declared in the city on 4 July.

The Russian army launched a drone attack on the centre of Sumy in the afternoon of 3 July. The Sumy regional administration said that four Shahed 136 drones had struck the city, damaging an administrative building and two multi-storey residential buildings.

On 27 June, Russian forces launched a strike on Ukraine’s Kramatorsk, which killed 13 people, including a 17-year-old girl and two 14-year-old sisters. Moreover, Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina died from the severe wounds she sustained in the attack. In addition, 61 civilians were injured, including an eight-month-old baby.