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Seven killed, 11 wounded in night attack on Kharkiv (update)

Shahed drone hit a residential area. 

Seven killed, 11 wounded in night attack on Kharkiv (update)
Hit on Kharkiv’s Shevchenkivskyy district
Photo: Kharkiv Region’s police

Six people were killed in a nighttime attack on the Shevchenkivskyy district of Kharkiv. Another 11 residents of the city were wounded, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and the Office of the Prosecutor General have said

Update. As of 14:20, according to the Kharkiv Police Investigation Department, the death toll from the night shelling has risen to 7. The city was attacked with S-300. A petrol station was completely destroyed and power lines were damaged. 

Shahed drone hit a residential building. At least nine high-rise buildings, three dorms, a number of administrative buildings, a shop, a petrol station, a service station and a car were damaged. 

According to the head of the Regional Military Administration, Oleh Synyehubov, the youngest victim is 23 years old and suffered blast trauma and shrapnel wounds. 

A 25-year-old and a 71-year-old woman and six men aged 35 to 85 are also in moderate condition. Other victims sustained light injuries. 

"This attack on civilians in Kharkiv proves once again that Russia is a terrorist state," Terekhov wrote. 

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