Pregnant Woman Among Six Killed, 28 Wounded After Russian Missile Strike on Recreation Centre Near Kharkiv, Ukraine

Six people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and 28 injured in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on 19 May as a result of a Russian Iskander-M terrorist missile strike. 

This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Oleg Sinegubov.

Yesterday in Kharkiv, a cinema building, a fence, a restaurant building, and a car were damaged as a result of shelling of the Central Park of Culture and Recreation. Two women were injured.

Also in Kharkiv, Russians shelled the city cemetery No. 2. A petrol station was damaged.

In the village of Ivashky, Bohodukhiv district, six private houses were damaged by artillery shelling.

In the town of Vovchansk, a 63-year-old man died as a result of the shelling, another man was injured.

In the village of Novoosynove, Kupyansk district, two people were killed and five were injured as a result of shelling from multiple rocket launchers, the head of the regional state administration stressed.

In the village of Kivsharivka, Kupyansk district, three people died and four were injured as a result of shelling from multiple rocket launchers.

In the village of Cherkaska Lozova in Dergachivska territorial community of Kharkiv district, 28 people were injured as a result of an Iskander-M missile strike, including two ambulance workers. Six people were killed, Sinegubov said.

According to the head of the regional state administration, 11 combat engagements took place in the Kharkiv sector since the beginning of the day. The Russian invaders carried out air strikes and tried to break through the defences near Vovchansk, Starytsia, Lypky and Zelene. Ukrainian soldiers inflicted significant losses on the invaders, information on which is being clarified. 

A day of mourning for the dead has been declared in Kharkiv region on 20 May.