• 09/20/2024

Kharkiv’s Prosecutor’s Office: Russia hits Kharkiv railway station with Iskander missiles, number of victims increases – photos

Pravda Ukraine

Early reports indicate that Russian troops fired two Iskander-M missiles at the village of Budy in Kharkiv Oblast, killing two people and injuring 23, including a 14-year-old girl.

Source: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office

 

Aftermath of the attack. 
Photo: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office

Quote: “On 13 July, at about 15:40, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on a railway station in the village of Budy, Kharkiv Oblast. After the arrival of the [emergency] services, Russian troops used the double-tap strike tactics and fired a missile at exactly the same location.

The head of the Kharkiv District Department of the State Emergency Service in Kharkiv Region and a police officer of the Patrol Police Response Unit […] of the National Police in Kharkiv Oblast were killed.

23 people, including a 14-year-old girl, suffered injuries of various degrees of severity.”

 

Aftermath of the attack.
Photo: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office

Details: The attacks damaged railway infrastructure facilities, residential buildings and cars.

 

Aftermath of the attack.
Photo: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office

The prosecutor’s office clarified that, according to early reports, the Russian Armed Forces hit the village with two Iskander-M missiles.

Background:

  • On Saturday afternoon, Russian troops struck twice at the village of Budy in Kharkiv district. Earlier, it was reported that two people were killed and 22 injured in the strikes.
  • The attack killed Artem Kostyria, head of the Kharkiv District Department of the State Emergency Service in Kharkiv Oblast, and Oleksii Koshchii, a police officer of the patrol police response sector of the Kharkiv District Police Department.
  • Five railway workers were among the injured.

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