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A missile slammed into a postal depot overnight on the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s second largest city, Kharkiv, killing six workers and wounding at least 16 other employees, the Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n
The depot was in Korotych, one of the city\u2019s western suburbs, said Oleh Syniehubov, of the regional military administration, in a post on the Telegram messaging app. In a separate message, Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor\u2019s office accused Russian forces stationed across the border in the Belgorod region of firing a surface-to-air missile. The Ukrainian statements could not be independently confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cA missile has just hit it,\u201d the private postal operator, Nova Poshta, said in a statement on Facebook<\/a> that included video of bomb damage. \u201cThere are dead and injured, including those seriously injured. They had no chance to run to the shelter, because the sirens sounded seconds before.\u201d<\/p>\n A similar video posted online<\/a> by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine showed emergency workers at the warehouse-style depot, which had been shattered by what appeared to be an explosion that had also damaged a series of delivery trucks. The blast had scattered shards of glass and metal over a parking lot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cRussia will not be able to achieve anything through terror and murder,\u201d Mr. Zelensky wrote on Telegram. \u201cWe need to respond to Russian terror every day with our results on the front lines.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, also condemned the attack<\/a> in a post on X, the social media network formerly known as Twitter, and said that \u201cthe United States stands with Ukraine to hold Russia accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Kharkiv is around 60 miles from the front line in the war, but only about 20 miles from the Russian border. As a result, it has been regularly targeted by missiles, even as Moscow has made no concerted attempt to take control of the city since early in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began 20 months ago.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said that Russia\u2019s air force also struck a coal mine in the city of Toretsk, in the Donetsk region, overnight, and that Russian mortars had hit houses in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine. Mr. Klymenko said that there were no casualties. Ukraine\u2019s armed forces said on Sunday that they had shot down three Russian exploding drones overnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Russia has conducted a campaign of missile and drone strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine in parallel with its invasion. Since February 2022, more than 9,000 civilians have been recorded killed and nearly 18,000 people have been wounded, according to data from the United Nations<\/a>. Explosions rather than gunfire have caused the majority of the casualties, the U.N. has said.<\/p>\n