Around 3 a.m., a guided missile hit one of Kharkiv’s busiest highways on the border of two districts, the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, has said.
The Head of the Military Administration, Oleg Sinegubov, specified that the blow came to the carriageway of the city, where the missile ‘Grom-E1’ struck at night.
‘The shelling damaged a petrol station building, glazing of buildings, a construction supermarket, a two-storey residential building, trolleybus contact lines and city lighting. Fortunately, without casualties,’ Sinegubov wrote.
‘One out-of-service petrol station was destroyed and another was slightly damaged. Several windows in an adjacent hotel were smashed. A construction hypermarket located at the intersection was slightly damaged,’ Terekhov added.
According to the state emergency services, rescuers went to check after enemy shelling in the Slobodsky district of the city. ‘As a result of the hits on the carriageway, the glazing of a residential building, construction hypermarket, and petrol station was damaged. There was no fire,’ – the emergency workers stated in their message.