Kharkiv authorities report three deaths in grocery-store missile strike

Officials report three deaths near a shop

A missile strike near a grocery store on the outskirts of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, killed three people on Sunday evening, regional authorities said. Regional administrator Oleh Syniehubov attributed the attack to Russian forces. Early accounts recorded seven injured people; the regional administration subsequently raised that total to 22 civilians.^[1]

The three deaths were reported both in the initial coverage and in the later account. The grocery-store location was initially described as a preliminary assessment. Authorities continued to revise information about injuries as emergency teams worked at the scene.^{[1], [2]}