A Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv on Monday shattered much of the Derzhprom building, one of the most celebrated landmarks in Ukraine’s second city, dating from the 1920s.
Six people were injured in the 9 p.m. local time strike, adding to 13 wounded in an earlier overnight bomb attack on the city. In the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, a Russian missile struck a three-story residential building, killing one person and wounding at least 11. President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strike on Kharkiv’s Derzhprom building, one of the most striking examples of Soviet-era constructivism architecture and dubbed the Soviet Union’s first skyscraper.
“Instead of cozying up to him, we must force him into peace through our collective decisiveness.” Reuters news agency video showed parts of the Derzhprom building reduced to rubble and virtually all of its windows shattered. “The occupiers have struck an iconic symbol of the city, known to all residents of Kharkiv,” Oleh Syniehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, wrote on Telegram. He said several floors had been destroyed.
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