SIX postal workers have been killed and a further 16 injured after a missile hit a distribution centre in eastern Ukraine late on Saturday night.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram the Nova Poshta sorting office was struck in Kharkiv.
Pictures from the scene posted on President Zelensky’s account showed the building with windows blown out.
Kharkiv’s regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said the victims all worked for the postal company.
Police said 22 people were inside when the suspected S-300 rocket hit the building just before 22:30 local time (20:30 BST).
Investigators, together with criminologists and forensic experts, are conducting an examination of the bodies of the dead, police added on social media.
Writing on Telegram himself, Mr Syniehubov said the victims were aged between 19 and 42, with some suffering shrapnel wounds from the blast.
He said the private delivery company in the western Kharkiv suburb of Korotych was “strictly a civilian site”.
“The Russians have inflicted more terror on Kharkiv’s peaceful population,” he added.
