Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov announced this on the Telegram messaging app, Ukrinform reports.
"The shelling took the lives of three people. The number of those injured has increased to 23," he wrote.
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Earlier reports said that Russian forces hit Kharkiv with S-300 missiles early on Friday.
Photo: Ihor Terekhov/Telegram