Three civilians killed, 23 injured in Russian shelling of Ukraine's Kharkiv

Three civilians were reportedly killed and 23 injured in Russia’s shelling of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Thursday.

Medical workers and journalists carry the body of a victim following a Russian rocket strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.

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“Three persons have been killed and 23 injured in the occupiers’ shelling of two districts in the city of Kharkiv today,” the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement, as cited by the Ukrinform news agency.

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At around 9:30 a.m., Russian forces shelled a public transport stop in Kharkiv’s Kyivskyi district with the Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), killing three civilians and injuring 20, the ukrinform.net website reported.

In a separate attack, Russian troops launched an artillery strike on Kharkiv’s Saltivskyi district, hitting a residential building and injuring three civilians, according to the Ukrinform news agency.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that the Russian army "has already used more than three thousand cruise missiles against Ukraine."

He added: "It is impossible to count the number of artillery and other projectiles that were used against our country and our people."

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, #Russia had fired more than 3,000 cruise missiles at Ukrainian territory. The launch of one such missile costs several million dollars.

In the photo: the consequences of a missile strike on #Vinnytsia.

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Source: PAP, ukrinform.net