The occupiers launched an air strike on the central square of Kharkiv - Freedom Square, where the building of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration is located.
On the first day of spring, the center of Kharkov was bombed.
An air raid alarm sounded in the city and explosions immediately thundered in the center: on Freedom Square, near Klochkovskaya, the zoo, the Shevchenko garden, on Rymarskaya. According to eyewitnesses, the opera house is on fire. According to preliminary information from the city council, the animals in the zoo were not affected, this information is being specified.
Windows were broken in the Kharkiv Regional State Administration and all neighboring buildings. In the volunteer tent "All for the win" no one was hurt. She will be transferred to a safe place in the subway. At the site of the airstrike, the rector of the church of the Apostle John, Father Viktor Marinchak, will serve a liturgy today at 12:00.
During the missile attack, the building of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, the Opera House, the Philharmonic and part of the houses on the street were partially destroyed. Rymarskaya and adjacent (mainly 4-5 storey residential buildings). Divisions of the State Emergency Service cannot be involved in the work due to shelling. Kharkiv residents are asked not to leave shelters.
