The death toll from a Russian airstrike on a hardware store in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has risen. Governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, announced on Sunday that eleven people had been killed.
Russia attacked the store with at least one slide bomb on Saturday, wounding at least 40 people, saying Ukraine had hidden a weapons cache in the store.
“The tactic of human shields is used in Kharkov – they [the Ukrainians] have set up a military camp and a command post in a shopping center, which was discovered by our intelligence service,” the state agency TASS quoted an unnamed representative of the Russian leadership.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were about 200 people in the Epicentr construction store at the time of the attack.
