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April 16 () –
At least two people have died in an attack carried out by the Russian Army against the Ukrainian town of Lukians, located in the province of Kharkiv, located in the northeast of the country and one of the most affected by the offensive in recent months, according to the Ukrainian authorities have denounced.
The governor of Kharkiv, Oleg Sinegubov, noted in a message on his Telegram account that “Russian troops bombed an educational institution with a guided aerial bomb” and stressed that the attack left two dead and four injured.
“About 20 towns in Kharkiv were hit by enemy attacks with artillery and mortars,” he said, before highlighting that a man was injured by the explosion of a device while working on his tractor in a crop field in Balakliska.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has insisted over the last few days on the need to reinforce defensive capabilities in Kharkiv, the scene of many of the latest attacks by the Russian Army within the framework of the war, unleashed in February. of 2022 due to the invasion order issued by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
