Residential building in Kharkov hitted by S-300, one person died, three were injured

A missile from the S-300 air defense system hit a residential building in Kharkov on Monday night, head of the Kharkov military-civilian administration Oleg Sinegubov announced on Monday.

"A hit in a residential building in the city center was recorded. In the Kiev district. According to preliminary information it was an S-300 missile. All emergency services are working on the spot. Information about the victims and damage is being specified," he wrote on Telegram.

Later, the mayor of the city Igor Terekhov reported on his Telegram channel, that as a result of a rocket hit, one person died and three were injured.

*Earlier, an air alert was announced in several regions of Ukraine, including Kharkov.*

Air raid sirens went off shortly after midnight in the Ukrainian regions of Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad, as well as the Ukraine-controlled parts of Zaporizhzhia and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the ministry's online map showed.