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At least one person died and 16 others were injured in Wednesday’s Russian attack on Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, the mayor of the city, Ihor Terechov, announced.
The mayor called the Russian strike “another bloody terror against Ukrainians” and said four children were among the injured. Ukrainian officials report damage to residential buildings, a medical facility and a school. Debris was seen in front of the damaged five-story building and a body covered in blood on the ground, lying next to a bicycle.
The Russian invasion army attacked Kharkiv with aerial bombs, for the first time since 2022, Serhiy Bolvinov, the head of the investigative department of the police in the Kharkiv region, said. Mykolaiv in the south of the country also became the target of attacks in the afternoon, where six people were injured, local officials reported, according to the Ukrainska Pravda server.
According to the RBK-Ukraine server, regional chief Oleh Syněhubov also spoke about the fact that Russia used a relatively unusual type of weapon, and he mentioned large-caliber guided munitions. Bolvinov spoke about aerial bombs, which he described as a cheap analogue of a guided missile.
“This is a D-30 SN UMPB made on the basis of the FAB-250 bomb,” Bolvinov said, adding that the information was being verified.
The FAB-250 is a devastating 250 kilogram unguided aerial bomb that is dropped from aircraft and is designed to attack military targets such as fortifications or bunkers. Both Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region are targeted by Russian airstrikes almost daily. However, the use of large-caliber guided bombs is unusual, Reuters noted. Russia mostly uses drones or S-300 missiles.
