Ukraine’s attorney general said at least 49 people were killed.
Kiev:
Ukrainian officials said Thursday that a Russian attack on a supermarket and cafe in the eastern region of Kharkiv had killed dozens of people.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack had hit the Kupiansk district of the war-torn region bordering Russia, where Moscow’s forces have been pushing to regain territory they lost to Ukrainian forces last year.
“The brutal Russian crime of hitting an ordinary supermarket with a missile is a completely deliberate terrorist attack,” Zelensky said in a statement on social media.
Ukraine’s attorney general said at least 49 people were killed.
Zelensky posted an image of a woman kneeling over the body of someone apparently killed in the strike, other bodies scattered around her as rescuers worked nearby.
The head of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, said the strike hit a cafe and shop in the village of Groza at around 1:15 p.m. (1015 GMT).
The village is located 30 kilometers west of Kupiansk, a city on the front line, and had an estimated population of around 500 before the war.
“Rescuers are working on the scene,” he said, adding that a six-year-old boy was among the dead. One child was injured, he added.
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