Six postal workers killed in Russian missile strike over Kharkiv | World News

Six people have been killed and at least 14 injured after a Russian missile attack on a postal centre in Kharkiv.

President Volodymyr Zelenksy said on the Telegram messaging app that ‘Russian missiles hit the Nova Poshta centre – an ordinary civilian object,’

He posted a video showing a building with smashed windows and construction materials strewn about.

Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the broader Kharkiv region of which the city of Kharkiv is the administrative centre, said several of the injured were in serious condition in hospital.

Those killed and injured were employees of the postal centre, Mr Synehubov said on Telegram. Police said the workers did not have time to seek shelter because the siren sounded a second before impact.

Police said 22 people were inside when the suspected S-300 rocket hit the building just before 10.30pmlocal time (20:30 BST).

Investigators, together with criminologists and forensic experts, are conducting an examination of the bodies of the dead, police added on social media.

Writing on Telegram himself, Mr Syniehubov said the victims were aged between 19 and 42, with some suffering shrapnel wounds from the blast.

He said the private delivery company in the western Kharkiv suburb of Korotych was ‘strictly a civilian site’.

‘The Russians have inflicted more terror on Kharkiv’s peaceful population,’ he added.

Several other missile attacks have been launched across Ukraine in recent days.

In President Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, a 60-year-old man died on Friday night when a Russian missile hit an industrial facility, said the mayor Oleksandr Vilkul.

He added that the man’s wife was taken to hospital with serious shrapnel wounds. Hours later Russian missiles and drones are reported to have attacked the same site without injury.

In Ukraine’s Kherson region, another civilian was killed and a second suffered wounds as Russian troops used tanks, mortars, multiple-rocket launchers, artillery and drones to target residential areas.

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