Russian missile attack kills 10 in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, officials say

(Reuters)

Aug 18 – A Russian missile attack killed ‌10 people on Tuesday in a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian authorities said.

“This morning the Russians launched a brutal ​attack on a busy intersection in Pechenihy, ​Kharkiv region – a location with a post office ⁠and stores, surrounded only by residential buildings,” ​President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on X.

Zelenskiy posted ​photos of a destroyed building, cars on fire and emergency responders carrying people on stretchers.

“We will definitely respond to this ​Russian strike,” he said.

A further 17 ​people were injured in the attack, the governor of the ‌surrounding ⁠region, Oleh Syniehubov, said on the Telegram messaging app.

There was no immediate public comment from Russia on the attack.

The strike on the village damaged ​10 private ​buildings, a ⁠cafe, a post office, a store and at least seven cars, Syniehubov said.

​Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said that according ​to ⁠preliminary information, Russia used two small Banderol cruise missiles.

A local official told public broadcaster Suspilne that ⁠the ​strikes had hit the central ​part of the village, where the cafe, post office and ​shops are located.