Kharkiv’s rising toll TSN follows rescue work

Sep 28

TSN’s anchor reports forty-three injured after a Russian projectile hit a Kharkiv apartment building in the Saltivskyi district. The field package shows collapsed second- and third-floor slabs and describes an earlier thirty-person injury count, including nine children and a three-year-old girl as the youngest. A twelve-year-old girl and a man are reported still in hospital. Residents recount a powerful nighttime explosion; authorities describe ten damaged residential buildings and firefighters evacuating about thirty people. Further attack warnings repeatedly interrupt rescue work. The anchor’s later forty-three total and the field report’s earlier figures are not silently treated as identical snapshots.

Democracy Now reports an initial 22 injured, including children, in a Russian guided-aerial-bomb strike on a Kharkiv apartment building. Resident Yulia Baldzhy describes escaping with her children through shattered glass and smoke. TSN's later anchor update reports 43 injured in Saltivskyi district. Its field report describes a strike around 04:00 on a nine-story building, collapse of the slabs around the second and third floors, damage to ten neighboring apartment buildings and evacuation of around thirty people. An earlier interview within the package gives thirty injured, including nine children, with a roughly twelve-year-old girl and a man still hospitalized; the youngest injured child is reported to be three. Residents describe the explosion and emergency response. Crews repeatedly suspend rubble clearance under further attack threats and resume when they pass. TSN calls the weapon a projectile and does not resolve Democracy Now's guided-bomb attribution; the provisional injury counts are not added together. TV Brasil's September 28 roundup reports 35 injured, including ten children, in the Kharkiv attack and attributes the destruction to drones. This differs from Democracy Now's guided-bomb description and from TSN's 43-injured anchor update and earlier package figures. These are source-specific provisional accounts, not additional casualties or independent proof of the weapon used.