Officials said five children were injured in Sunday’s attack, which also damaged a shopping mall.
At least 47 people, including five children, were injured after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.
The attack, which began at around 1pm local time on Sunday, hit a shopping mall and a large sports center in the city in the north-east of the country, not far from the border with Russia.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the Saltivskyi and Nemyshlianskyi area had been attacked, with the Prosecutor General saying Russia had used Iskander missiles.
Seven children were among the injured, the youngest being just three months old.
“Several people are in a very serious condition,” Ukrainian Pravda reported.
He added that rescue teams and ambulances that responded to the call also came under fire.
“The enemy launched a cynical repeated attack on our city … while doctors were injured,” Terekhov said.
The attack comes just days after at least seven people were killed and dozens injured when Russian weapons hit an apartment building in the city and set it on fire.
After Sunday’s attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated his call for Ukraine’s Western allies to allow the country to use their weapons against targets deeper inside Russia. Zelenskyy claims that such a move would allow Ukraine to more effectively reduce the Russian military threat.
“All necessary forces of the world must be brought to stop this terror,” Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel after officials said the attack involved at least 10 missiles.
“This does not require extraordinary forces, but enough courage on the part of the leaders – the courage to give Ukraine what it needs to defend itself.”
Photos and videos from the scene showed rescuers and volunteers carrying the injured out of the destroyed buildings. Many were covered in dust with their clothes ripped and torn.
Broken glass and debris were strewn across the ground as people ran to the subway station for safety.
Russia’s strike on Sunday came hours after Russia said it intercepted more than 150 drones over its territory, which it said were part of a “massive” Ukrainian attack.
Russia attacked Ukraine last week with its heaviest airstrikes of the war, targeting the country’s energy grid.
Moscow denies targeting civilians, saying damage to Ukraine’s energy system is a legitimate military objective. Its drones and rocket fire have killed thousands of civilians since Russia launched its all-out invasion in February 2022.
Zelenskyy said that last week alone, Russia used 160 missiles, 780 guided aerial bombs and 400 attack drones against cities and soldiers across Ukraine.
He called on Telegram to “decide on long-range strikes on missile launch sites from Russia, destruction of Russian military logistics, joint shooting down of missiles and drones.”
