Russia Continues To Target Civilians, Six Killed While Waiting In Queue For Aid In Kharkiv

A shocking video has emerged on social media showing a Russian shell attack targeting civilians in the battered city of Kharkiv.

Six people were killed and 15 others were injured in the attack while they were waiting for humanitarian aid.

According to Oleg Syniehubov, the regional governor, the Russian missile strike hit a shopping mall parking lot in Kharkiv, killing six people and injuring 15 on Wednesday.

Security camera video shows attack on a crowd of civilians waiting for aid supplies outside a post office and shopping center in Kharkiv.
An official says 6 civilians were killed.
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People were waiting outside a post office in the mall to receive humanitarian aid, Syniehubov added.

The strike was caught on CCTV cameras from nearby buildings.

In the videos, terrified people can be seen running for their lives after the blast, with bodies seen lying on the ground.

One harrowing picture shows the body of a dead man being lifted into an ambulance by paramedics.

According to CNN, the video has been geolocated near the Nova Poshta post office on Akademika Pavlova Avenue in Kharkiv.

Russian long-range weapons have hit civilians near a post office in Kharkiv, killing 6 and injuring 15, says the region's administrator, Oleg Sinegubov. The residents were queuing to receive humanitarian aid, he added. CNN could not independently verify the death toll.#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/sux5DFx6Zl

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This is not the first time Russia has been accused of deliberately targeting civilians in the war that has been going on for over a month now.

On the second day of the war, the Kharkiv Regional Children's Clinical Hospital No. 1was struck by a cluster bomb munition, wounding one staff member.

Ukrainian authorities on Friday had said that 300 people could have died in last week's Russian strike on a theatre in Mariupol where hundreds were sheltering.

Reuters

"From eyewitnesses, information is emerging that about 300 people died in the Drama Theatre of Mariupol following strikes by a Russian aircraft," Mariupol city hall wrote on Telegram.

Collateral damage

President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week following the strike that hundreds of people, believed mostly to be women and children, had taken in the building at the time of the attack.

AP

The civilian death toll in Ukraine has exceeded 1,000 since the start of Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Thursday ¡ª warning that "the actual figures are considerably higher."

¡°Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,¡± according to the OHCHR.

AP

In a statement, the UN body detailed the 1,035 civilian deaths as ¡°214 men, 160 women, 14 girls, and 28 boys, as well as 48 children and 571 adults whose sex is yet unknown.¡±

It added that at least 1,650 civilians have been injured since the start of the invasion.

With every new attack, the public outcry for war crimes prosecutions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, his generals and top Kremlin advisers grows louder.

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