In Kharkiv, search and rescue work in a dormitory building in Slobidskyi district has ended. The bodies of six people, including one child, were recovered from the rubble.
This is reported by the Department of Emergency Situations in the Kharkiv oblast.
"Employees of the State Emergency Service conducted search and rescue operations at the scene of the incident for two days. Nine people were rescued, including two children," the message reads.
The total number of people killed as a result of rocket attacks by Russian occupying forces on two Kharkiv hostels on the evening of August 17 and the morning of August 18 increased from 19 to 21 people.
- On the evening of August 17, Russian troops struck a residential building in the Saltivskyi district with an Iskander system, causing it to collapse. A fire also broke out on an area of 600 square meters. It was eliminated only at 10:55 a.m. on August 18.
- In the morning, the occupiers fired rockets at a dormitory in the Slobidskyi district, at the Palace of Culture "Zaliznychnyk" and at the city of Krasnohrad.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the missile attack on Kharkiv. They announced the destruction of "more than 90 militants".