On Wednesday, March 27, two powerful explosions were heard in the afternoon during the air alarm in Kharkiv. For the first time since 2022, Russian troops attacked a residential area of the city with air bombs. 19 people were affected, among them a girl born in 2022 and a boy born in 2023. One civilian woman was killed, who was on the street at the time of the “arrival”. 14 apartment buildings were damaged.
“Under the attack of Shevchenko district, according to verified information, the enemy used a cheap analogue of a cruise missile. We have two arrivals ---- the first hit on the secondary school, the second right in the middle of the residential buildings”, ----reported the head of the Investigative Department of the region Serhiy Bolvinov.
Head of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Synegubovnoted that today the enemy struck Kharkov for the first time with guided large-caliber ammunition: “The shelling of residential buildings was probably carried out with UMPB D-30 ammunition. It is quite powerful, in terms of the force of explosion - the average between an air bomb and a missile. Ammunition with a caliber of 30 cm can fly a distance of up to 90 km. They are used both from the aircraft and from the Smerch RSV. The final information will be after the examination,” Sinegubov stressed.
Local photographer Yakov Lyashenko documented the aftermath of the Russian attack. Near the entrance, he found a dead elderly woman with a bicycle, as well as many victims who were injured due to glass fragments that flew from the windows. “This is a completely residential development. There are houses and a supermarket nearby. There are no military facilities there,” says the photographer.
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the relatives of the dead and injured, and noted that Russian terror against Kharkov acquires a special meanness: “Attempts to drive more than a million people into a blackout, constant missile strikes and “shaheeds”. Now, the air bombs. Just along an ordinary street, through houses, schools, ordinary civil infrastructure.” The guarantor of the state once again appealed to international partners with a request to strengthen air defense: “Why do “petriots”, of which there are enough in the world, still not close the skies of Kharkiv and other cities and communities suffering from Russian terrorists?
All services are working on the spot, a rescue operation has begun. Residents of damaged homes are provided with humanitarian assistance and offered temporary housing.
Recall that for several days Kharkiv was in BlackoutOn March 22, the Russians hit the city with 15 rockets and completely neutralized it.
The project is implemented thanks to support IWM Documenting Ukraine.
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
On Wednesday, March 27, two powerful explosions were heard in the afternoon during the air alarm in Kharkiv. For the first time since 2022, Russian troops attacked a residential area of the city with air bombs. 19 people were affected, among them a girl born in 2022 and a boy born in 2023. One civilian woman was killed, who was on the street at the time of the “arrival”. 14 apartment buildings were damaged.
“Under the attack of Shevchenko district, according to verified information, the enemy used a cheap analogue of a cruise missile. We have two arrivals ---- the first hit on the secondary school, the second right in the middle of the residential buildings”, ----reported the head of the Investigative Department of the region Serhiy Bolvinov.
Head of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Synegubovnoted that today the enemy struck Kharkov for the first time with guided large-caliber ammunition: “The shelling of residential buildings was probably carried out with UMPB D-30 ammunition. It is quite powerful, in terms of the force of explosion - the average between an air bomb and a missile. Ammunition with a caliber of 30 cm can fly a distance of up to 90 km. They are used both from the aircraft and from the Smerch RSV. The final information will be after the examination,” Sinegubov stressed.
Local photographer Yakov Lyashenko documented the aftermath of the Russian attack. Near the entrance, he found a dead elderly woman with a bicycle, as well as many victims who were injured due to glass fragments that flew from the windows. “This is a completely residential development. There are houses and a supermarket nearby. There are no military facilities there,” says the photographer.
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the relatives of the dead and injured, and noted that Russian terror against Kharkov acquires a special meanness: “Attempts to drive more than a million people into a blackout, constant missile strikes and “shaheeds”. Now, the air bombs. Just along an ordinary street, through houses, schools, ordinary civil infrastructure.” The guarantor of the state once again appealed to international partners with a request to strengthen air defense: “Why do “petriots”, of which there are enough in the world, still not close the skies of Kharkiv and other cities and communities suffering from Russian terrorists?
All services are working on the spot, a rescue operation has begun. Residents of damaged homes are provided with humanitarian assistance and offered temporary housing.
Recall that for several days Kharkiv was in BlackoutOn March 22, the Russians hit the city with 15 rockets and completely neutralized it.
The project is implemented thanks to support IWM Documenting Ukraine.
The material was worked on:
Researcher of the topic, author of the text: Vira Labych
Bildeditor: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi
Literary Editor: Julia Futei
Site Manager: Vladislav Kuhar
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