Video showed rescue workers helping injured people, including the elderly, away from the bombed-out zone as thick black smoke poured from an apartment. Some people were lying on the ground, injured. All the windows in the apartment block had been shattered.
Mr Zelensky claimed four glide bombs were fired in the attack. One hit the apartment block in Kharkiv city and the other three hit nearby villages.
There were also glide bomb attacks on the Sumy region and across the front line in the Donbas region.
“There are no fewer than a hundred airstrikes of this kind every day. Just in the past 24 hours, 128 guided aerial bombs were used. The only way to counter this terror is with a systemic solution, and that solution is long-range capabilities – enabling us to destroy Russian military aircraft at their bases,” he said.