Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures at least 12

(Reuters) – Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, injuring at least 12 people, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the Russians had deployed a guided bomb and rescue operations were under way at the site. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said there had been two strikes on the city.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksander Kozhukhar; editing by Diane Craft and Paul Simao)