A Russian strike on Tuesday killed no fewer than five civilians and wounded at least 55 in the town of Izium in the northeastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine, destroying the city council building.
Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram that Russian ballistic missile hit the building in the town’s central district.
Syniehubov stated that three children were among the injured, who also included many local government and social services workers.
Syniehubov later said both women – one of them pregnant – were among those killed.
Bodies of those killed in the strike lay in black bags on the pavement.
“This brutality cannot be tolerated. Maximum pressure must be applied to Russia – through military force, sanctions, and diplomacy – to stop the terror and protect lives,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on X, commenting on the strike.
It was gathered that one section of the recently renovated council building had totally collapsed as a result of the strike, all its windows shattered.
Syniehubov said there were no military facilities in the area, adding that one more administrative building was damaged, as well as residential blocks nearby.
DAILY POST gathered that ballistic missiles usually hit targets in Ukrainian regions bordering Russia within just minutes of being detected.
Izium was occupied by Russian forces at the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now approaching its three-year anniversary, and sustained widespread destruction.
After the town was liberated, Ukrainian officials said they found mass graves and accused Russia of war crimes, which Moscow denies.
