Shelling kills 18, injures scores in Kharkiv in past four days: Zelensky

[BENGALURU] Eighteen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in shelling in the past four days in the north-east Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said late on Sunday.

On Sunday, five people were killed and 20 were injured when a missile and artillery fire hit the city centre and the Saltivka suburb, regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said earlier.

Reuters could not independently verify the number of people killed.

Zelensky said in his nightly address that Russia’s shelling on Kharkiv has been constant.

“This is nothing but deliberate terror: mortars, artillery against ordinary residential quarters, against ordinary civilians,” Zelensky said.

Synyehubov said Ukraine’s armed forces had successfully engaged in counter-attacks in the Kharkiv region, recapturing two villages fully and another partially. REUTERS