Moscow launches further deadly missile strikes on Kharkiv | EUROtoday

A ten-year-old boy was killed and a minimum of 16 folks injured when a Russian missile assault on the north-east Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv on Friday morning.

Two missiles slammed into the town simply after daybreak, one in every of them tearing a 15-foot deep gap in a avenue downtown and damaging a number of close by buildings.

It was not clear what sort of missiles had been used within the assault, however witnesses in Kharkiv mentioned they made a noise loud sufficient to confuse them for fighter jets flying overhead.

Andre Holub, a Ukrainian businessman from Kyiv, was staying in a downtown lodge near the place one missile tore a gaping crater within the street.

“I was asleep in my room and then about 6am there was a massive explosion that knocked out all the windows in my room,” he instructed The Telegraph. “I was okay but it was quite scary – the street outside is completely wrecked.”

The blast wrecked home windows as much as six storeys excessive and scattered bricks, damaged glass and particles over a large space. Cars had been set alight, telegraph poles dragged down and a water mains burst. Emergency rescue staff had been looking via close by buildings to test for casualties. The second missile strike is believed to have struck the town’s suburbs however its impression was not instantly clear.

There gave the impression to be no apparent motivation for the placement of the assault downtown, though locals mentioned that one of many buildings near the scene of the blast had as soon as been a tv channel’s workplaces.