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Sami Quadri

Ukraine-Russia war: Six postal workers killed in Kharkiv missile strike

Six people have been killed and at least 14 injured after a Russian missile attack on a postal distribution centre in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

"Russian missiles hit the Nova Poshta centre - an ordinary civilian object," President Volodymyr Zelenksy said on the Telegram messaging app.

He posted a video showing a building with smashed windows and construction materials strewn about.

Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the broader Kharkiv region of which the city of Kharkiv is the administrative centre, said several of the injured were in serious condition in hospital.

Those killed and injured were employees of the postal centre, Mr Synehubov said on Telegram. Police said the workers did not have time to seek shelter because the siren sounded a second before impact.

Several other missile attacks have been launched across Ukraine in recent days.

In President Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, a 60-year-old man died on Friday night when a Russian missile hit an industrial facility, said the mayor Oleksandr Vilkul.

He added that the man's wife was taken to hospital with serious shrapnel wounds. Hours later Russian missiles and drones are reported to have attacked the same site without injury.

In Ukraine's Kherson region, another civilian was killed and a second suffered wounds as Russian troops used tanks, mortars, multiple-rocket launchers, artillery and drones to target residential areas.

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