Occupiers hit high-rise building in Kharkiv with drone: five injured, including 10-year-old child (updated)
On the afternoon of Wednesday, 2 April, Russian invaders attacked Kharkiv with a drone.
This was reported by the mayor of the city Ihor Terekhov on Telegram, Censor.NET reports.
"An enemy Molniya drone struck the Kyiv district of the city. The consequences are being clarified," Terekhov wrote at 16:09.
"There is preliminary information about a hit to a high-rise building," Terekhov said at 16:12.
Later, Terekhov reported that an enemy UAV hit the 8th floor of an apartment building in the Kyiv district of the city.
"Fortunately, there was no fire - the windows in the house were blown out. Information about the victims is being clarified," he wrote.
Later it became known about two victims.
"There is preliminary information about two victims who were in the apartment that was hit by the drone. Several cars in the yard were damaged," the mayor wrote at 16:25.
Updated information
"Both victims have shrapnel wounds. The strike hit the 8th floor of a 16-storey building. Six cars were damaged in the yard. All utilities and volunteers are already working at the scene," Terekhov wrote at 16:31.
The mayor later clarified that one of the victims was a 10-year-old child.
At 16:48 it became known that the number of victims had increased to four.
Later, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said that the number of victims had increased to 5.
"The number of victims has increased to five. A 66-year-old woman also suffered an acute stress reaction. Two are hospitalized, including a 10-year-old boy," the official wrote.
