Approximately 200 people were inside the building at the time of the bomb attack.
Firefighters working at a site of a DIY superstore hit by a Russian air strike, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on May 25.People working to move a vehicle, as smoke rises from the Epitsentr DIY hypermarket, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
“Two people were killed. They were men who worked in the hypermarket,” Mr Synegubov said, in a video posted on Telegram.Thick black smoke billowed from the gutted building of the Epitsentr DIY superstore as firefighters sprayed water on a blaze sparked by the strikes, an AFP video journalist saw.“As of now, we know that more than 200 people could have been inside the hypermarket,” Mr Zelensky said on Telegram, condemning the daylight attack on an “obviously civilian” target.
The city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest, regularly comes under attack from Russian missiles, with strikes on the city killing at least seven people on May 23.‘Brutal blow’ Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said that according to the store’s owner, 15 store employees had not been in contact and approximately 200 people were in the building at the time of the strikes.Russia shelled the village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, a railway hub in the Kharkiv region near the border, wounding five, the regional prosecutor’s office said, in a statement.
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