Russian missile strikes kill one in Kharkiv, sets police department on fire - authorities

Record ID: 1688839

  • Title: Russian missile strikes kill one in Kharkiv, sets police department on fire - authorities
  • Date: 12th September 2022
  • Summary: KHARKIV, UKRAINE (SEPTEMBER 12, 2022) (REUTERS) FIREFIGHTERS WALKING DOWN LADDER AS BLAZE AND BLACK SMOKE ARE SEEN IN WINDOWS BLAZE AND BLACK SMOKE SEEN IN WINDOWS VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS WALKING UP LADDER FIREFIGHTERS LOOKING ON FROM GROUND VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS PUTTING OUT FIRE GREY SMOKE RISING OVER ROOF (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) VOLODYMYR TYMOSHKO, THE CHIEF OF KHARKIV NATIONAL POLICE, SAYING: “For the second day Russia is terrorizing Kharkiv, destroying electricity and other critical infrastructure. There is no water, no gas in some areas. I assure you that communal services are working as usual, everything will be restored. We can rebuild everything they (Russians) destroyed. However, they will never recover from the losses they’ve suffered in Ukraine. I am convinced that these savage-like people deserve to be forever faded from the history into oblivion.” DEAD BODY UNDER BLANKET POLICE CORDONING OFF AREA WITH RED TAPE, DEAD BODY UNDER BLANKET (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) VOLODYMYR TYMOSHKO, THE CHIEF OF KHARKIV NATIONAL POLICE, SAYING: (SPEAKING ABOUT CASUALTY) “This was a local citizen who lived an ordinary life until today like any of us. This touches another Kharkiv family and is another stab of pain for Kharkiv. We will get over this pain, we will survive all of them, and will celebrate and dance on their graves.” VARIOUS OF PARAMEDICS REMOVING BODY (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) GENADII SHTERENBERG, A RESIDENT OF KHARKIV, SAYING: “I heard an explosion around Shevchenko Street, Vesniana Street, somewhere in those areas, and two more missiles whistled over us. I could clearly hear they were heading in the southern direction, over us. I have not seen them, but I heard two. Then we found a cluster munition outside. I think the building will stand for 150 more years if we could be as fortunate as this.” REPORTERS ASKING OFF CAMERA: “What is this house?” GENADII SHTERENBERG: “That is a private building, someone moved there a while ago. One thing I know for sure, there are no Armed Forces of Ukraine here.” VARIOUS OF MISSILE TAIL STUCK IN SOIL OUTSIDE PRIVATE HOUSE
  • Embargoed: 26th September 2022 14:46
  • Keywords: Russian forces counteroffensive defeat eastern Ukraine
  • Location: KHARKIV, UKRAINE
  • City: KHARKIV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001471612092022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Russian missile strikes killed one civilian and wounded four on Monday (September 12), Kharkiv governor Oleh Synehubov said.
    Reuters video showed a dead body under the blanket and then being carried away by the paramedics.
    Serhii Bolvinov, the chief of the investigative department at Kharkiv police, said the strike hit local police department, causing fire on the last flour of the building.
    Emergency services were on site, putting out a blaze.
    Russian strikes have again cut off power and water supplies to Kharkiv, the mayor of Ukraine's second largest city said on Monday.
    Earlier, the regional governor said 80 percent of power in the city had been restored following Russian shelling on Sunday, which followed a large Ukrainian counter-offensive to recapture territory in the Kharkiv region.
    Moscow, which denies deliberately striking civilian targets, has not commented on the reports.
    (Production: Vitalii Hnidyi, Omer Berberoglu, Margaryta Chornokondratenko)
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