Rescuers retrieved the body of an 8-year-old girl from under the rubble of a partially destroyed high-rise building in Kharkiv. The death toll in the city has increased to eight.
Rescue operation in Kharkiv
The State Emergency Service reports that in total, eight dead and 60 injured (including six children) in the city are currently known.
Rescue operations are ongoing.
Kharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, announced on the air of the telethon that 62 wounded were taken to hospitals due to Russia's missile attack on the city.
The occupiers targeted residential buildings, causing significant damage. An educational institution and other civilian infrastructure were also destroyed.
Russian missile attack on January 23
On the morning of January 23, Russian troops fired 41 missiles across Ukraine, attacking Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Pavlograd.
The troops of the Russian Federation used cruise, ballistic, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles. Air defence forces destroyed:
15 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles;
5 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
One Kh-59 guided air missile.
At the same time, not all enemy missiles that attacked on a ballistic trajectory reached their targets.
In Kyiv, explosions and fires were recorded in Svyatoshynskyi, Pecherskyi and Solomyanskyi districts.
In the capital, 22 people were injured, including four children, and 12 people were hospitalized. A total of 55 people were evacuated and rescued.
Twenty-eight objects, including residential buildings, medical facilities, educational institutions, and cars, were damaged.
A 43-year-old woman was killed in Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region, who was in one of the city's public squares during the attack. Infrastructure, two schools and eight high-rise buildings were damaged.
