On 5 October Russian glide bombs hit Kharkiv's Slobidskyi district. The death toll rose to six and the number of injured to 59.
On 5 October Russian forces struck Kharkiv with at least three guided aerial bombs (KABs). According to Mayor Ihor Terekhov, the strikes hit the Slobidskyi district. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, later said that body parts of a sixth victim were found during the search and rescue operation; in total six people were killed and 59 wounded. Volunteers Support Ukraine looks at what is known.
Terekhov reported that warehouse buildings caught fire, residential buildings were damaged and people might still be under the rubble of an apartment block. One of the bombs hit a five-storey residential building. Children are among the injured. A drone also struck a petrol station in the city's Kyivskyi district. According to Interfax-Ukraine, seven people were killed and 80 injured in shelling across the Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours.
Rescuers and medics are at the scene, clearing rubble, fighting fires and searching for people. This is not the first glide-bomb strike on Kharkiv in a few days — on 3 October children were also injured in a similar attack.
Aerial bombs give residents no time to react, and whole neighbourhoods feel the consequences. NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war as far as its resources allow, and offers condolences to the families of the dead.
