📊 Casualties

The shelling killed 8 people, including a 7-month-old infant, and wounded 42 people (9 children and 33 adults).

Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast
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Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent UNIAN Censor.NET

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Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

8 people were killed in the shelling, including a 7-month-old infant

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

42 people were wounded, including 9 children and 33 adults

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Casualty figures were confirmed by Maksym Houstov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Department of Health

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Russian forces shelled Kharkiv on April 15, 2022

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

8 people were killed in the shelling, including a 7-month-old baby

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

42 people were injured in the shelling, including 9 children, according to Oleh Synegubov

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Oleh Synegubov is the head of Kharkiv Regional Administration

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

1,644 residential multi-story buildings in Kharkiv have been destroyed by Russian shelling.

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

Colonel Vasyl Kleschenko was killed on April 15; his body and the helicopter wreckage were recovered in June near Husarivka.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:20:46.087Z

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