KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed one person and injured 57 more on Friday morning, emergency services said.
Five children were among those injured in the attack, which also damaged apartment buildings, an educational institution and a civilian enterprise, they added in a Telegram post.
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Ukraine’s second biggest city, said the attack damaged 15 apartment buildings based on preliminary information.
Reuters photos from the scene showed emergency workers giving first aid to people with bleeding wounds near one of the apartment buildings.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia has reduced the number of its strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, but was attacking civilian infrastructure instead.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a U.S.-brokered moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure last month, but both sides have accused each other since of violating it.
Zelenskiy told a press conference in Kyiv that in total, Russia was launching the same number of missiles and drones at Ukraine as before the agreement.
A Friday morning drone attack on Sumy, another northeastern city, also killed one person and injured another at a factory baking Easter cakes.
(Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko; Editing by Tom Hogue and Kate Mayberry)
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