INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two Russian missiles struck a hotel in Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, injuring 13 people including foreign journalists, local authorities
said Thursday.The strikes on Wednesday evening came as both Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of inflicting dozens of civilian casualties in
a sharp escalation of attacks."Thirteen people were injured," including a Turkish citizen and a Georgian, the prosecutor general's office
said."Two missiles hit a hotel in the center of Kharkiv
There were no military personnel there
Instead, there were 30 civilians," Mayor Ihor Terekhov posted on Telegram.One of the wounded is in "very serious condition," he said, adding
that "Turkish journalists are among the victims."Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, said S-300 missiles
were fired from the Russian frontier region of Belgorod, adding that a 35-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition."Several other
buildings, including two apartment blocks, were also reported damaged in the latest strike."In addition to the hotel, residential buildings
kilometers (19 miles) from the Russian border, Ukraine's second-largest city has seen regular and often deadly aerial assaults.Across the
border, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had downed four Ukrainian drones over the Tula, Kaluga and Rostov regions.Voronezh region
Governor Alexander Gusev also reported that a Ukrainian drone had hit "the roof of a non-residential building" overnight, although said
there was "no harm done."
