One killed and four injured in Russian drone strike on shopping centre in Kharkiv
Russian forces struck a shopping centre in Kharkiv's Osnovianskyi district with an attack drone on 27 August, killing a 40-year-old man and injuring four other people.
Source: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov; Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration
Quote from Terekhov: "We are receiving reports of people being injured in the strike on the shopping centre. Information is being gathered on the number of people injured and their condition."
Details: Terekhov said an attack drone had struck a shopping centre in the city's Osnovianskyi district.
Update: Syniehubov later reported that a 40-year-old man had been killed in the attack. Four other people were injured.
Emergency services are working at the scene.
Background:
- On the night of 26-27 August, a Russian drone struck the balcony of a flat in an apartment block in Kharkiv's Industrialnyi district, injuring a man.
- On 26 August, Russian forces attacked a business centre in a residential area in Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast, causing a fire and injuring at least 10 people.
- On 21 August, Russian forces carried out two drone strikes on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, killing 16 people and injuring another 140.
- As of the morning of 24 August, 49 people injured in the 21 August strike on the Kryvyi Rih shopping centre were still in hospital, 15 of them in a serious or critical condition.
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