Ukraine war: At least 31 injured in daylight strike in Kharkiv region

At slightest 31 people, including 9 children, person been injured aft a rocket struck the carpark of a residential gathering successful Ukraine's eastbound Kharkiv region.

What is believed to beryllium a Russian Iskander rocket landed successful the municipality of Pervomaisky astatine astir 13:30 section time.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said determination were lone residential buildings successful the area.

Two babies were among the injured, a one-year-old and a ten-month-old.

Mr Kostin said targeting the residential buildings amounted to different warfare transgression from Russia.

Oleg Sinegubov, the Kharkiv determination politician posted respective pictures of the damaged gathering to Telegram. They showed smashed windows, acheronian fume clouds and an overturned car.

"At slightest fractional of the neighbourhood is successful an uninhabitable state," Anton Orekhov, the president of Pervomaiskyi was quoted arsenic saying by section media.

Russia has not instantly commented connected the incident, and Moscow has antecedently denied targeting civilians.

Pervomaisky is astir 90km (50 miles) southbound of the large metropolis of Kharkiv and comparatively acold from the existent warring hotspots, which are predominantly successful the Donbas region.

But the Kharkiv portion was the absorption of dense warring successful the aboriginal days of Moscow's penetration of past year, with Ukrainian forces determination warring backmost Russian attempts to beforehand further into the country.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Russia said it had brought down 5 Ukrainian drones aimed astatine Moscow and its surrounding region, but reported nary casualties oregon damage.