At least 30 people, including three children, were injured in the strike of a Russian controlled bomb that fell on a high-rise residential building in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
"The rescue operation in Kharkiv continues. Russian airstrike. An ordinary residential building, a multi-storey building, was damaged. There is a fire and debris between the 9th and 12th floors," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in the Telegram app.
Kharkov Governor Oleg Sinegubov said that civil infrastructure was also damaged.
Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, is located near the Russian border and is constantly under attack from Russian bombs, missiles and drones.
"And the world must help protect Ukraine from the Russian warplanes, from the dozens of guided bombs that take the lives of Ukrainians every day. This terror can be stopped," Zelensky said.
Kiev has said it should be allowed to use more powerful Western-supplied weapons to inflict greater damage on Russian territory and reduce Moscow's ability to attack. Russia denies deliberately attacking civilians, although it has killed thousands of them since it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Reuters reports.