Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had targeted “decision-making centres and military facilities” in Kharkiv. The ministry said the hit on the Kharkiv Palace Hotel had “destroyed representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate and Ukrainian Armed Forces” involved in the “terrorist attack” in Belgorod.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a British journalist was among the wounded,while public German broadcaster ZDF said Sunday that one of its television crews had been in the hotel.
A Ukrainian translator was hit by debris and seriously wounded,and one of the team’s security guards also was injured,ZDF said in a statement.
“This is another attack by Russia on the free press,” ZDF Editor-in-Chief Bettina Schausten said.
In the Kyiv region that surrounds Ukraine’s capital,a Russian drone attack caused a fire at a critical infrastructure facility,local officials said. They did not identify the nature of the facility.
Russian troops additionally shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Sunday,killing a 14-year-old boy and leaving a nine-year-old boy hospitalised in critical condition with a brain injury,according to regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin.