News Mania Desk/ Piyal Chatterjee / 16th September 2024
According to Ukrainian officials on Sunday, a Russian strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv, in northern Ukraine, has left one person dead and at least forty injured. There are also concerns that other people may be trapped beneath the debris.
Children made up three of the casualties after the 12-story building was struck by a guided aerial bomb, according to Oleh Syniehubov, chief of the military administration of Kharkiv.The strike has resulted in at least 14 hospital admissions and one suspected missing person.
“Perhaps there are people beneath the debris,” Syniehubov remarked. “The search and rescue effort is still ongoing.”
“There may be people under the rubble,” Syniehubov said. “The search and rescue operation continues.”
One of the residents refused to evacuate without his dog, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. “Every life is important to our rescuers, so they rescued both the man and his pet from the smoke-filled apartment on the 12th floor,” he added.
The minister posted a video of the dog being hoisted into the air by an emergency crane online. Once on the building’s roof, the dog was greeted by a savior.
The ninth floor caught fire as a result of the strike. There was total destruction of three apartments. The impact has caused damage to dozens of cars and broken hundreds of windows.
“This is civil infrastructure,” the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said. “Russia massively violates human rights and international humanitarian law. The reaction must be here and now.”
In the wake of the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his demand for further military assistance from allies.
“The world must help us defend ourselves against Russian military aircraft and the dozens of guided aerial bombs that claim Ukrainian lives every day,” Zelensky said in a social media post on Sunday.
“This terror can be stopped. But to stop it, the fear of making strong, objectively necessary decisions must be overcome. Only decisiveness can bring a just end to this war. It is decisiveness that most effectively protects against terror,” he said.
