A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district injured five people, including a four-year-old boy. The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, announced this according to the news outlet pravda.com.ua.
The attack on an apartment building occurred late in the evening of Tuesday, 27 October, as Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov announced. According to his statements, there were initially indications of people trapped inside. Syniehubov initially named two injured people, including the four-year-old; later the number rose to four – two women aged 32 and 65, a 56-year-old man and the boy. Three of them were taken to hospital. In the morning the Ukrainian emergency service DSNS reported five injured people.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, the attack caused a large fire over an area of 2,500 square metres. A two-storey production building, utility buildings, a two-storey apartment building and a single-storey residential building were on fire. In addition, a private residential house, high-rise buildings, garages and cars were damaged.
Already the day before, a warehouse of the KSD publishing house had been damaged in Kharkiv after Russian shelling, as Ukrainska Pravda reports. The Ukrainian news outlet The New Voice of Ukraine (NV) also reported that Russian drones had damaged the entrance of a metro station in the city on 27 October; on 24 October a shopping centre in the Osnovianskyi district had been hit.
