Ukraine investigating ‘potential war crime’ after civilians – including children – injured
A Russian air strike on a residential area of Kharkiv is being investigated by Ukrainian prosecutors as a potential war crime after six civilians were wounded.
Among the injured were three children, aged eight, 13 and 16.
Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed and injured since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
About 45 miles to the northeast in Vovchansk, a city three miles from the Russian border, prosecutors said Russian shelling killed a 60-year-old woman and injured three other civilians.
A 59-year-man was also injured in the village of Ukrainske, they said.
Meanwhile in Russia late on Saturday, Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a Ukrainian drone attack injured a woman and a man in the village of Petrovka.
They were treated for shrapnel injuries, he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Moscow’s defence ministry said its forces shot down a Tochka-U missile fired by Ukraine into Belgorod.
A similar missile caused a Belgorod apartment building to collapse last week, killing at least 15 people, Russia said.
