The death toll from a Russian strike on a hardware superstore in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to 11, the regional governor said, with President Volodymyr Zelensky condemning the attack as 'vile'
The death toll from a Russian strike on a hardware superstore in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to 11, the regional governor said, with President Volodymyr Zelensky condemning the attack as"vile".
Thick black smoke billowed from the gutted Epitsentr superstore on the northeastern outskirts of the city, as firefighters sprayed water on a blaze sparked by the strikes, AFP journalists saw.Still wearing her uniform, Ms Lyubov, a cleaner at the store, recalled how she escaped the building. The regional governor said there was"no contact with some of the staff" and"according to our information, visitors could still be in the building".
"Russia struck another brutal blow at our Kharkiv - at a construction hypermarket - on Saturday, right in the middle of the day," Mr Zelensky said. They said the fire had raged over an area of 10,000 square metres but that the firefighters had managed to contain it.He said later that the hypermarket had"burned to the ground" and that nearly 60 people had been wounded in Kharkiv throughout the day.Russia and Ukraine accused each other's forces of attacks along the border yesterday.
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