Chaotic Strike on Kharkiv: Over 12 Injured and Destruction.

Russian forces inflicted strikes on Kharkiv, leading to power outages.

12 people were injured, including 7 women aged 22 to 83 years and 5 men aged 21 to 38 years. This was reported by the mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, and the head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleh Syniehubov, on October 21 in Telegram.

Terekhov clarified that in the Kyiv district, a gas station, auto service station, private houses, and high-voltage lines were damaged. In the Osnovianskyi district, there is damage to apartment buildings and private homes, garages.

The digital description of the event is available at .

The police of the Kharkiv region reported in Telegram that in Kharkiv, the number of people injured due to Russian shelling increased to 12.

Thus, the head of the GUNP in the Kharkiv region, Volodymyr Tymoshko, called the actions of the Russian army in the context of this airstrike - terror against the residents of Kharkiv.

«The tactical aviation of the Russians approached from Belgorod for strikes, scattering CABs chaotically across the city, which indicates not a targeted strike on military objects, but terrorism of the local population», – he emphasized.

According to preliminary data from bomb technicians, the enemy struck Kharkiv with guided air bombs CAB-250 with UMPC.

By the way, Russian forces are advancing towards Pokrovsk. Their goal is probably to seize a mine where a special type of coal - coking - is mined. This is reported by journalists from the Reuters agency.

Recall that in Kyiv this night, as a result of an enemy attack using strike drones and the fall of their debris, one person was injured. A fire also broke out in the city, which rescuers have already managed to localize.

The occupiers advanced near Toretsk and Selydove, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine succeeded near Sudzha - report ISW.