Video captures the moment of the air raid on the Kharkiv hypermarket

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office has released a video showing the moment a Russian airstrike hits a busy hypermarket in Kharkiv.

The incident occurred on the afternoon of May 25 at around 4 p.m. in the Kharkiv district of Kyiv. The target was the Epicenter construction hypermarket, where there were over 200 people at the time.

A large fire broke out after the explosion. The public prosecutor's office confirmed the deaths of two employees and reported that 25 people were injured. In addition, ten employees remain missing while rescue operations continue.

The prosecutor's office said the attack took place in a civilian area without military facilities and called it a violation of the laws and customs of war under Part 2 of Article 438 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code.

The death toll from a Russian attack on a hardware store in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to 14 on Sunday, the regional governor said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack as “heinous.”

“Russia dealt our Kharkiv another brutal blow on Saturday in the middle of the day – in a construction hypermarket,” said Zelensky.

“Only madmen like Putin are capable of killing and terrorizing people in such a heinous manner,” he said, referring to the Russian president who ordered his troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

According to Epicenter administration, an air raid warning was issued before the attack, but there was not enough time to evacuate before two attacks hit the central part of the building.

The Ukrainian emergency services released images of firefighters spraying water into the burning Epitsentr department store building, with the roof torn off and debris scattered.

They said the fire raged over an area of ​​10,000 square metres, but firefighters managed to contain it.