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Russian rockets eliminate policemans in strike on Ukraine's Kharkiv

A Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second biggest city, struck an area used by police officers on Friday, eliminating a senior officer and hurting 30 other individuals, nationwide authorities stated.

4 civilians were amongst the hurt in the late afternoon attack, a police declaration on the Telegram messaging app said. It said S-300 rockets had actually been deployed by Russian forces.

Reuters might not separately validate details of the attack.

Pictures posted on Telegram by Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv region in Ukraine's northeast, revealed rescue groups sifting through mounds of debris.

Syniehubov said some of the injured officers remained in major condition. He said an attack on the city previously in the day had actually harmed a multi-storey home bloc and several private houses.

A Russian directed bomb struck a multi-storey house on Wednesday, killing 3 individuals.

Kharkiv remained in Ukrainian hands throughout the preliminary unsuccessful advance by Russian forces on the capital, Kyiv, after their February 2022 invasion. The city has given that stayed a frequent target of Russian air strikes.

(source: Reuters)