Russia may have used a new type of remote-guided bomb in airstrikes in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday that killed at least one person, local authorities said, AFP reported.

Officials said four children, including a three-month-old baby, were among 19 people injured in Kharkiv in the latest strikes since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, some of which caused blackouts, including in Kharkiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi condemned the attack as “Russian terror,” and Kharkiv regional police chief Volodymyr Tymoshko said Moscow may have used a new type of guided bomb, which he called the D-30 UMPB.

“It’s a cross between the guided aerial bomb they (the Russians) recently used and a missile. It’s a flying bomb, so to speak,” Tymoshenko said at the scene of the impact.

Oleg Singubov, the governor of the region, also suggested that Moscow could have used a new type of bomb: “It seems that the Russians have decided to test their modified bombs on the residents of the houses.”

“According to preliminary data, the enemy hit Kharkiv for the first time today with a large-caliber guided missile,” the governor said in Telegram.

“Kharkiv was hit by aerial bombs – for the first time since 2022,” Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the regional police, said on Facebook.

Russia did not immediately comment on their comments. He denies targeting civilians, even though the war has killed thousands, driven millions from their homes and destroyed cities.

Two residential buildings and a medical institution were partially destroyed, and a total of 14 buildings, including an educational institution, were damaged, Oleg Synegubov, the governor of the region, said in the Telegram messenger.

Frequent attacks

The police surrounded a five-story residential building, in which the windows were blown out and the balconies were badly damaged.

“We are very lucky to be alive. Someone was unlucky. One person died, others have shrapnel wounds,” said Kateryna Velnychuk, who was in the building with her friend during the shelling.

At the scene, a man with a bandaged head rummaged through the wreckage of the damaged apartment in search of two cats, whom he eventually found alive.

A body covered with a jacket lay near the entrance to the building. There was blood on the pavement.

During the more than two years of war, Kharkiv and its surroundings were often shelled by rockets and drones, but the use of large-caliber guided bombs is unusual for the city.

“Russian terror against the city is becoming more and more terrible,” Zelenskyy said on the X broadcast and called on Ukraine’s allies to provide more air defense systems and fighter jets.

“There is no rational explanation why the Patriots, of which there are many in the world, still do not protect the skies of Kharkiv and other cities and towns that are attacked by Russian terrorists,” he said.