KUPIANSK: Russian forces hit a museum in the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Tuesday, killing one person, injuring 10 more and burying others under rubble, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“So far we know of a dead museum worker and 10 wounded while more people are still trapped under the rubble,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram messenger.
He said the recovery process is underway after the shelling with the involvement of all necessary agencies.
Zelenskyy’s chief of staff and the regional governor said the museum was struck by a Russian S-300 missile.
Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine that has claimed thousands of lives, uprooted millions and destroyed cities.
The Ukrainian president posted a video of a badly damaged building, with smashed windows and partly destroyed roof and walls, that had spewed out rubble and debris into the street.
Kupiansk, an important railroad junction which had a pre-war population of 26,000, lies in Kharkiv region. Russian forces occupied it four months after they invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukrainian forces retook Kupiansk in a lightning counteroffensive in September that also recaptured the cities of Izium and Balakliia.
