"As of now, we know that more than 200 people could have been inside the hypermarket," Zelensky said on Saturday on Telegram after reports of two people's death by the guided bomb strikes that sparked a massive fire.
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has indicated there is a possibility of more than 200 people to be inside a DIY superstore struck by Russia in the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
"As of now, we know that more than 200 people could have been inside the hypermarket," Zelensky said on Saturday on Telegram after reports of two people's death by the guided bomb strikes that sparked a massive fire.
It was learnt that Russia on Saturday bombed a hardware superstore in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, killing at least two people and injuring over 20, in an attack condemned as "vile" by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said that at least two people were killed and 24 injured when "two Russian guided bombs hit a construction hypermarket" and "a fire broke out over 15,000 square metres."
Videos posted by witnesses on social media showed a huge column of black smoke billowing into the sky from a fire in the Epitsentr store, located in an area of large stores beside a car park.
The Epitsentr chain of hypermarkets sells household and DIY goods.
The city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest, regularly comes under attack from Russian missiles, with strikes on the city killing at least seven people on Thursday.
The latest attack came after Russia launched a ground offensive in the Kharkiv region on May 10. Ukraine said Friday that it had managed to halt Moscow's progress and was counterattacking.