Russian double attack on Kharkiv Oblast leaves two dead and 22 injured

On July 13, Russia attacked the village of Buda in Kharkiv Oblast with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles. The attack killed the head of the Kharkiv Regional Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Defense Service Artem Kostyria, and a policeman. According to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, about 22 civilians were injured, including a child.

On the afternoon of July 13, explosions occurred in the Kharkiv region during an air raid warning. In the village of Buda, Russian occupiers carried out several attacks on railway facilities and vehicles.

When rescuers arrived at the scene, Russian terrorists struck a second time at the same location, killing Artem Kostyria and a police officer from the response sector of the patrol police of the Kharkiv District Police Department, Senior Sergeant Oleksii Koshii.

“Among the injured were three firefighters, a policeman and about 20 civilians, including a child,” Klymenko noted and stressed that Russia has repeatedly attacked rescue workers while they were rescuing civilians.

He added that for every such crime there would be accountability and a response – in court and on the battlefield.

Earlier, Ukrainian defense forces had expelled the enemy from Sotnytskyi Kosachok, a village near the border with Russia in the Kharkiv region.

DeepState: Ukrainian forces thwarted Russian attempt to expand Kharkiv front and liberated a village

Previously, Russian forces had crossed the border and occupied the settlement in order to widen the front line near Kharkiv.

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