The Ukrainian police said in a statement: “The Russian military continues to shell peaceful residential areas of Kharkiv.”
The Ukrainian police said in a statement: “The Russian military continues to shell peaceful residential areas of Kharkiv.”
One man has been killed and another is in hospital after Russian missiles struck a quiet residential area of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, according to the police.
The images show the moment the car is hit by the Russian missile, followed by the aftermath of another attack in the city on the night of August 8-9.
The first piece of footage, showing the car being hit, was obtained from Sergey Bolvinov, the head of the Investigative Department of the State Police for the Kharkiv region on August 8.
He said that the images show “a direct hit by a rocket projectile into a car” and that the attack had taken place in the quiet, residential Kharkiv neighborhood and historical area of Pavlovo Pole, in the Shevchenkivskyi District of the city.
Other images obtained from the police chief appear to show a body in a residential area of the city. The police chief said: “Rashists in the morning shelling the area of Pavlovo Pole with ‘Uragan’ missiles.”
‘Rashist’ is a term that is often used by the Ukrainian forces when referring to the Russian invaders. It is a combination of the words ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism.’
The police chief added: “One dead and one injured. Both of them are civilians. Fortunately, more than 22 shells did not explode. There would be a lot more victims.
“Investigators are already on the scene, recording the consequences of the crimes of the Rashists.
“We will never forgive and never forget.”
The Ukrainian police said in a statement on Monday, August 8: “The Russian military continues to shell peaceful residential areas of Kharkiv: the police are recording the criminal actions of the occupiers.
“On the morning of August 8, the enemy struck the Shevchenkiv district of Kharkiv with a salvo of Uragan missiles. A 63-year-old civilian died and a 68-year-old man was taken to the hospital in a moderate condition.”
The police added that they had opened an investigation and said that “the investigative and operative group of the Kharkiv District Police Department No. 3 worked on the spot. The circumstances and witnesses of the event are being established, primary materials are being collected.”
The other piece of footage, also obtained from the Kharkiv police, shows investigators working at a site in Kharkiv that was hit by Russian shelling on the night of Monday, August 8, to Tuesday, August 9.
The police said on August 9: “At night, the enemy struck Kharkiv again – the police opened criminal proceedings.
“Police Department No. 2 of Kharkiv District Police Department No. 3 received a report that as a result of enemy shelling, a sanatorium and a building of a limited liability company, located in the Kholodnohirsky District, were damaged.
“Walls were partially destroyed in the premises, windows were broken, and sinkholes were formed in the adjacent areas:
“Another strike was recorded on the territory of the Industrial district. The police received a message from the city electric transport operator that the contact network, support and tram tracks were damaged as a result of rocket fire. At the site of another hit, a two-story building was destroyed.
“Employees of investigative and operational teams, explosives technicians and forensic experts conduct an inspection of the sites of hits, collect material evidence, and document crimes. Missile fragments were removed. It was preliminarily established that the shelling was carried out by S-300 type missiles.”
“According to these facts, the investigators opened criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Art. 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides imprisonment for 10 to 15 years or life imprisonment.”
Zenger News contacted the Investigative Department of the State Police for further comment, as well as the Russian Ministry of Defense, but had not received a reply at the time of writing.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what the Kremlin is still calling a “special military operation”. Wednesday marks the 168th day of the war.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that between February 24 and August 10, Russia had lost about 42,800 personnel, 1,832 tanks, 4,086 armored combat vehicles, 971 artillery units, 261 multiple launch rocket systems, 133 air defense systems, 232 warplanes, 193 helicopters, 766 drones, 185 cruise missiles, 15 warships, 3,005 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, and 89 units of special equipment.
Russia has claimed that its casualties have been much lower, but provides infrequent updates on its latest figures. The Pentagon said on Monday that Russia has suffered between 70,000 and 80,000 casualties – deaths and injuries – since the beginning of its invasion.
Several large explosions have taken place at a large Russian air base in Crimea, far from the front lines. It is currently unclear if the air base was targeted by Ukrainian weaponry. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has vowed to liberate Crimea. He said: “This Russian war against Ukraine and against the entire free Europe began with Crimea and must end with Crimea – with its liberation.”
But an adviser to President Zelensky, Mikhail Podolyak, has said that Ukraine is not taking responsibility for the explosions.
Petro Kotin, the head of Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear power firm, has warned of “very high” risks associated with shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which is currently under Russian control.
Kotin has requested that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe’s largest – be made a military-free zone and has warned of the risk of a nuclear disaster like that seen at Chernobyl.
Energoatom has said that Russian forces are currently in the process of redirecting the nuclear power plant’s electricity production to Crimea, to connect it to the Russian grid and disconnect it from the Ukrainian grid.
Estonia and Finland want European countries to stop giving tourist visas to Russian citizens, arguing that they should not be able to go on vacation in Europe while the Kremlin’s soldiers are in Ukraine. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right” and that it was time to “end tourism from Russia now.”
President Joe Biden has signed documents that endorse Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO.
Twelve ships have now left Ukrainian ports under a deal brokered between Ukraine and Russia by the United Nations and Turkey.
