President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited on of the largest printing houses in Kharkiv and entire Ukraine where seven people were killed on May 23 as a result of Russia's missile strike.

"My condolences to the families and friends. Another 21 people were wounded. The production facility was destroyed, tens of thousands of books were burnt by this strike. A lot of children's books, educational literature, textbooks… Russian terror must never go unpunished. Step by step, we are working to ensure that the Russian state feels the consequences and price of its evil," the head of state said on the Telegram channel on Friday.

The president's press service later reported that in Kharkiv, Zelenskyy visited the site of the destroyed Factor-Druk printing facility and met with its management. He was informed that the previous morning, Russian invaders had launched nine missile attacks on the Kholodnohirsky and Osnovyansky districts of Kharkiv. As a result of the shelling, a binding shop caught fire on the territory of a printing facility. At the time of the missile attack, there were more than 50 employees at the facility. Seven people were killed and 21 were injured. According to preliminary estimates, about 20,000 books for children and adults, including school textbooks, were destroyed. This was a full-cycle production, where almost all Ukrainian publishing houses printed books.

Zelenskyy promised that the state would find money to restore production capacity.

Serhiy Polituchy, the founder and President of the GC Factor, noted that Kharkiv is the main producer of printing products in Ukraine, but now there is a large capacity shortage. Publishers cannot print books, including educational literature, on time. This printing facility alone annually printed about a third of the total number of books in Ukraine. In particular, about 40% were school textbooks.