CNN —Eighteen people, including a 12-year-old girl, are among those killed in a Russian strike that hit a large store in Kharkiv on Saturday, regional officials have said, making it the deadliest attack Ukraine has endured in several weeks.
He said that 48 people were injured in the strike that hit the megastore building while nearly 200 people were inside.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second biggest city, which sits near its border with Russia, has seen a spate of Russian attacks in recent weeks.
Emergency workers carry out the body of a victim of a Russian strike that hit a large store in Kharkiv.
Photographs from inside the store following the attack show the building in complete ruin, with burnt stock and collapsed walls.
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