Russia pounds Kharkiv with improved gliding bombs, hits Odesa with ballistic missile

Ukraine is challenged to intercept both kinds of Russian aerial threats

Apr 7, 2024 - 16:10

Russia pounds Kharkiv with improved gliding bombs, hits Odesa with ballistic missile

In the latest episode of Russia’s gliding bomb campaign against Ukraine’s borderline regions, Russia struck Kharkiv city and oblast with UMPB D-30 bombs, damaging a school and killing at least one person.

The adapted UMPD D-30 gliding bombs emerged as the latest challenge to Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv, as they allow to target objects with cruise-missile precision at a fraction of the cost.

Russian gliding bomb attack Kharkiv — Consequences of the Russian gliding bomb attack on Kharkiv on 6 April. Photos via tg channel of Oleh Syniehubov, head of Kharkiv’s Oblast Military Administration

Apart from damaging the school, the bomb damaged 10 apartment highrises and 10 cars, according to Kharkiv’s prosecutor chief. He said that the bombs were launched from Russian airplanes in the nearlying Belgorod Oblast.

Kharkiv official Oleh Syniehubov informed that apart from the one killer person, four people were injured: A 47-year-old man and two women aged 66 and 22 with blast injuries, and a 10-year-old girl was diagnosed with an acute stress reaction.

Russian gliding bombs also struck settlements of the Kharkiv Oblast, Syniehubov said, damaging a private house, shop and its boiler room, and outbuilding.

Russia has struck a Kharkiv school with UMPD D-30 advanced gliding bombs, killing 1 person and injuring 3

Russia terrorizes Kharkiv w/ these adapted gliding bombs, bringing them closer in accuracy &maneuverability to a cruise missile at a fraction of the cost

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