Kharkiv: Number of casualties from Russian strike rises to 42, including two infants

The number of casualties from the Russian shelling of Kharkiv on July 24 has increased, chairman Igor Terekhov said:

The number of casualties from the daytime shelling of the city has increased to 42. Among them are two infants – 28 days and a month from their birth, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, another 10-year-old girl and two 17-year-old teenagers. The Russian shelling of Kharkiv on July 24 with guided aerial bombs hit a block of new 16-story buildings in the Shevchenkivskyi district. These two strikes with guided aerial bombs were made at 11 a.m. When people were both on the street and in their homes. The area hit is a block of new buildings. There are many young families with small children there.

The chairman also reported an attack on the Industrial District of Kharkiv after 5 p.m. The Russian army hit it with a Chernika-type combat drone, which looks like a children’s toy, but it is capable of carrying explosives. The Russians damaged private households, garages and power lines. According to local authorities, no one was injured.

The shelling of Kharkiv on July 24 caused damage to more than ten high-rise buildings and private houses. A civilian sewing enterprise was also destroyed.

Earlier, local authorities reported that on the afternoon of July 24, Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs, and a high-rise building was hit.