Russia-Ukraine conflict: ‘Six killed in Kharkiv strike’ as Kherson sees ‘record’ bomb assaults

Officials in southern Ukraine stated on Sunday that the Russian army had used a document variety of aerial bombs over the nation’s Kherson area previously 24 hours.

Natalia Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian army’s Operational Command South, stated 36 missiles had been recorded over the realm, with some villages being hit by a number of strikes.

Six individuals have been killed and not less than 14 injured in a Russian missile attack that hit a postal distribution centre within the war-devastated northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officers stated.

“Russian missiles hit the Nova Poshta centre – an odd civilian object,” President Volodymyr Zelenksiy stated on the Telegram messaging app.

He posted a video displaying s building with home windows blown out and building supplies strewn about, with pink vehicles with Nova Poshta written in Ukrainian in entrance of it.

Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the broader Kharkiv area of which the town of Kharkiv is the executive centre, stated a number of of the injured have been in critical situation in hospital.

Those killed and injured have been workers of the postal centre, Synehubov stated on Telegram. Police stated the employees didn’t have time to run to the shelter, as a result of the siren sounded a second earlier than affect.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the stories. There was no instant remark from Russia. Both sides deny concentrating on civilians within the conflict that Russia launched towards its neighbour in February 2022.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, was devastated within the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Three Ukrainian missiles heading for targets in Crimea have been downed on Sunday over a Russian-held space of Ukraine’s southern Kherson area, the Russia-installed governor stated.

Vladimir Saldo, writing on the Telegram messaging app, stated the missiles have been downed over the city of Henichesk.

Russian troops occupied Kherson area within the first days of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, however Ukrainian forces have regained management of the area’s major city and areas on the west financial institution of the Dnipro River. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

Six individuals died in a missile strike late on Saturday evening (21 October) on a mail depot within the metropolis of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Another 14 individuals have been injured within the blast, which is believed to have been brought on by a Russian S-300 rocket, Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov stated on social media.

All of the victims have been workers of personal Ukrainian postal and courier Nova Poshta.

In a press release, the corporate stated that the air raid siren had sounded simply moments earlier than the attack, leaving these contained in the depot with no time to achieve shelter.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky described the strike as an attack on an “ordinary civilian object.”

Russian forces have foiled a number of makes an attempt by Ukrainian models to cross the Dnipro River within the southern Kherson area over the previous day, Russia’s defence ministry stated on Sunday.

According to the ministry, Ukrainian “sabotage and reconnaissance” groups have been stopped whereas attempting to cross the river close to the villages of Pridniprovske, Tiahynka and Krynky.

Russia additionally stated it had destroyed Ukrainian personnel, water-crossing gear and automobiles close to the village of Stanislav. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm battlefield stories.

On Friday the Institute for the Study of War, a US analysis group, stated Ukrainian forces appeared to have damaged by way of on the japanese financial institution of the Dnipro River in Kherson.

Ukraine recaptured components of the Kherson area late final yr after months of Russian occupation. But Russian forces who left Kherson, the area’s greatest metropolis, retreated solely so far as the opposite facet of the Dnipro and have continued to shell the town from there.

Recent Russian assaults in Avdiivka have contributed to a 90 per cent enhance in Russian casualties recorded by the Ukrainian MoD, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

In its latest intelligence update on the invasion of Ukraine, the MoD estimates Vladimir Putin’s forces have suffered 150,000-190,000 everlasting casualties because the battle started, with the overall determine together with briefly wounded within the area of 240,000-290,000.

Elsewhere within the Kharkiv area, three individuals have been injured in Russian shelling on the town of Kupiansk, native governor Oleh Syniehubov stated.

The Ukrainian-held front-line metropolis has been on the coronary heart of fierce combating as each Moscow and Kyiv push for battlefield breakthroughs amid the looming onset of wintry situations.

Ukrainian forces have “likely repelled another intensified Russian offensive” in the direction of Avdiivka over the previous a number of days, a US conflict suppose tank has stated.

The Institute for the Study of War added that Vladimir Putin’s forces have suffered “further heavy personnel and equipment losses” within the space, together with 900 troops throughout assaults on Thursday.

Ukraine’s air defence programs destroyed six Russia-launched attack drones and a cruise missile in a single day, Ukraine’s Air Force stated on Sunday, including that in whole Russia launched 9 cruise missiles on Ukraine.

Russian forces launched a renewed offensive push close to Avdiivka on Friday, in line with a US conflict suppose tank.

The Insitute for the Study of War (ISW) stated Moscow’s troops had “marginally advanced”.

It added the latest offensive indicated that the Russian army command “remains committed to offensive operations in the area despite heavy materiel and personnel losses”.

This consists of the injury and destruction of almost 50 Russian tanks and over 100 armored automobiles by Ukrainian forces through the previous day of combating close to Avdiivka, reported the Ukrainian General Staff on Friday, in line with the ISW.