Number of people injured in Kharkiv by Russian attack rises to 15, one killed

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The number of people injured in a Russian attack on Kharkiv on 24 December has risen to 15, with one person killed. Two more residents of the oblast were wounded as a result of the attack.

Source: Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration

Quote: "In the city of Kharkiv, a 51-year-old man was killed, and 14 men and one woman were injured; in the village of Mytrofanivka of the Dvorichna hromada, a 64-year-old man was injured; in the village of Podoly of the Kurylivka hromada, a 56-year-old man was injured." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Details: According to the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, Russian forces struck the region using various types of weapons, including multiple-launch rocket systems, guided aerial bombs and drones.

In Kharkiv, a multi-storey residential building, three houses, two garages and two cars were damaged. In Zolochiv of the Bohodukhiv district, Russian attacks damaged three houses. In the Kupiansk district, a vehicle in Mytrofanivka was damaged by a strike.

The Russian attack also damaged a car in Male Vesele and a service station in Podvirky in the Kharkiv district, while in Derhachi a civilian company, a building and a warehouse were hit. In the Lozova district, Russian forces damaged a house, warehouse facilities and a car in Bashylivka.

Background: On 24 December, Russian forces carried out a series of targeted strikes on a heat and power plant in a nearby suburb of Kharkiv. At the time, it was reported that one person had been killed and 13 others injured.

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