Aftermath of Russian missile strike on Ukraine mail depot that killed six
Six people have been killed in a Russian missile attack that hit a postal distribution centre in Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials have said, as Kherson has seen a record number of bomb attacks in the past 24 hours.
A further 16 people were injured in the blast at the mail depot late on Saturday, Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said on social media, adding that several of the wounded were in a serious condition in hospital.
All of the victims were employees of private Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova Poshta.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the strike as an attack on an “ordinary civilian object”.
It comes as officials in southern Ukraine said on Sunday that the Russian military had used a record number of aerial bombs over the country's Kherson region in the past 24 hours.
Natalia Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military's Operational Command South, said 36 missiles had been recorded over the area, with some villages being hit by several strikes.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have “likely repelled another intensified Russian offensive” towards Avdiivka over the past several days, the Institute for the Study of War has said.
