President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Kharkiv and visited the site of the destroyed Factor-Druk printing complex and met with the management of the printing house.
Source. This was reported by the press service of the head of state.
The day before in the morning, the Russian occupiers launched nine missile attacks on Kharkiv, as a result of the shelling, a binding shop caught fire on the territory of the printing house.
More than 50 employees were working at the enterprise at the time of the missile attack. Seven were killed and 21 injured.
According to preliminary estimates, tens of thousands of books for children and adults, including school textbooks, were destroyed. This was one of the largest full-cycle production facilities in Europe, where almost all Ukrainian publishers printed books.
Zelenskyy expressed his condolences to the families and friends of those who died in the Russian strike. He also promised that the state would find money to restore production capacity.
Sergey Polituchiy, founder and president of Factor Group, said that Kharkiv is the main producer of printing products in our country, but there is a large capacity shortage. Publishers are unable to print books, including educational literature, on time. This printing house alone annually printed about a third of the total number of books in Ukraine. In particular, about 40% were school textbooks.
Forensic experts identified all the victims of the Kharkiv printing house using DNA samples, said Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the police investigation department. According to him, five of the seven victims were women who worked as typists and machine operators.
Background. As a reminder, the day before, Zelensky said that the brutal Russian attack on Kharkiv was made possible by a ban on Ukraine's strikes on Russian territory.