Damaged high‑rise buildings, a smashed tram and trolleybus, burned‑out cars, injured and terrified people — these are the consequences of the shelling of Kharkiv by Russian forces using UMPB D‑30 munitions.
The explosion in the city occurred on May 22, 2024. Once again, the enemy struck residential neighborhoods of the city — Shevchenkivskyi and Kholodnohirskyi districts — from the territory of Russia’s Belgorod region.
Ten people sustained blast injuries of varying severity.Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that four people were hospitalized.
“Fortunately, the trolleybus had no passengers inside. A fragment also pierced the windshield of a tram,” the mayor noted.
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office reported that one of the injured is the trolleybus driver, who is currently in serious condition.
“At the time of the explosion, he was near the epicenter of the strike,” the statement said. As for the other injured, most of them were passersby.
Later, Terekhov уточнив that doctors were forced to amputate one leg of trolleybus driver Yurii Orlov: “The surgery has just been completed and he has been transferred to intensive care. His condition is stable. He is provided with everything necessary. Of course, the city will not leave the man alone with this tragedy. We will support Yurii throughout the entire process of treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetics. The trade union of the enterprise has also opened a fundraising campaign to help their colleague. All funds are transferred directly to the victim’s personal account.”
As a result of the shelling, shop buildings, a car wash, vehicles, a civilian enterprise, and a café were also damaged in Kharkiv. In a nearby high‑rise building, almost all windows were blown out. Prosecutors and police investigators are working at the scene, documenting war crimes. Criminal proceedings have been initiated under Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
We remind that on the morning of May 19, 2024, Russian forces carried out double strikes on a recreation area in the suburbs of Kharkiv using Iskander‑M missiles. A recreation center in the village of Cherkaska Lozova, where about fifty people were present, came under attack. The tragedy of the destroyed recreation center near Kharkiv was documented in film photographs by Vladyslav Krasnoshchuk.
Worked on the material:
Topic researcher, text author: Vira Labych
Photo editor: Olga Kovalova
Literary editor: Yuliia Futei
