According to the head of the city, at 04:32 one, and then at least four more times the Russian troops struck in the Slobid and Kholodnogorsky districts - as a result, a large fire in the administrative building on an area of 4. 5 thousand square meters occurred in the latter. m. Rescuers reported its collapse. Also, about 15 cars stood near the building broke out as a result of the attack.
Already at 05:44 the Russian troops carried out another shelling - this time the Kyiv, Ospovyansky and Nemyshlyansky districts of Kharkiv came under it. According to Terekhov, in one case, an attachment in a dwelling was recorded, there is at least one victim. The Russian army also struck an unnamed infrastructure facility - there was a fire.
Later, Terekhov said that in the morning in the Slobid district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation they fired a hostel, resulting in injured 16 people, including two children. Rescuers also reported that one person had died. The fire area in the building was 800 square meters. m. Among the victims were people with hearing impairments, resulting in killed 7 people. On the morning of August 18, the invaders released a minimum of 5 missiles in the Slobid district of Kharkiv.
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