On the night of Monday, June 8, one of at least seven Shahed drones that attacked Kharkiv struck the Ukrposhta sorting hub in the Holodnohirskyi district of the city. According to the State Emergency Service, the strike destroyed warehouse building structures and caused a fire covering 1,000 square meters.
What is known about the facility
The affected terminal is KISS (Kharkiv Innovative Sorting Station), or KHIST. The project worth up to $42 million was being built in the "Ekopolis KhTZ" industrial park of Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi's DCH group: a logistics complex covering 7 hectares with a throughput capacity of 21,000 parcels and 15,000 letters per hour. It is one of the largest postal hubs in the country's east.
The strike and its consequences
Ukrposhta General Director Ihor Smilynskyi reported the attack on the morning of June 8.
"We had a difficult night. A Shahed hit our Kharkiv hub. It is partially destroyed, but the most important thing is that everyone is alive."
Ihor Smilynskyi, General Director of Ukrposhta
Building structures were destroyed and a fire broke out covering 1,000 square meters — rescuers reported. There were no casualties: personnel had been evacuated from the risk zone in advance.
How Ukrposhta is responding
- Recovery operations began at 4:00 AM that same night.
- Vehicles were redirected to backup facilities.
- Despite significant damage, a large number of parcels survived — delivery to Kharkiv was scheduled for the same day.
- Ukrposhta will compensate customers whose shipments were destroyed.
On the night of June 8, Russian unmanned drones attacked the Holodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv with seven strikes — the Ukrposhta hub became one of the targets alongside the industrial zone.
Context
This is not the first strike on postal infrastructure: previously, an explosion in Kyiv damaged a Novaya Poshta sorting depot. Attacks on logistics hubs are part of a broader pattern of strikes on civilian infrastructure in rear-area cities that have industrial significance.
If Russia continues to deliberately attack terminals with known coordinates and strategic facility status — the question arises: should Ukrposhta decentralize shipment processing in frontline cities while KHIST is being fully restored?
