"Preliminary, 16 people were injured, including seven children. The youngest child is one year old. The victims were taken to a medical facility," the statement reads.
According to police, a high-rise building was damaged and cars caught fire.
Oleh Synehubov, the Kharkiv region's governor, said on the Telegram messaging app that the shelling took place at 13:35 Kyiv time (1035 GMT) and several cars were on fire. He said the windows of eight multi-story building were smashed.
He posted several pictures of the building with smashed windows, dark smoke clouds, charred trees, and an overturned car.
"As of 3:00 p.m., we know of a significant number of wounded: 31 people were taken to a hospital (nine of them are children, 2 infants - 1 year, and 10 months)," Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy's office, said on the Telegram messaging app.
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