Russia strikes Kharkiv ‘police station’ as US boosts Ukraine’s military
Al Jazeera
At least one person killed in Kharkiv as Pentagon announces $425m in additional military assistance for Ukraine.
A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, hit a location used by policemen, killing at least one senior officer and wounding 30 other people, police said.
Four civilians were among those injured in the late afternoon attack on Friday, said a national police statement on the Telegram messaging app. It said S-300 missiles had been deployed by Russian forces.
“Today, the Russian enemy targeted a police station in the centre of Kharkiv with two missiles, killing a police officer,” Ivan Vygivsky, the head of Ukraine’s National Police, wrote on Facebook, naming the deceased as police colonel, Andriy Matviyenko.
He posted photos showing a huge crater next to a pile of rubble remaining from the building. In another picture, a policeman had his head bandaged and blood on his face.
Pictures posted on Telegram by Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv region in Ukraine’s northeast, showed rescue teams sifting through mounds of rubble.
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