Lagatar24 Desk
Kyiv, March 1: Ukraine’s authorities reported on Tuesday that Russian shelling had targeted the city centre of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
The regional administration building in Kharkiv’s centre, along with residential structures, came under intense Russian bombardment on Tuesday, according to Oleh Sinehubov, the chairman of the Kharkiv regional administration.
Sinehubov did not provide any figures for the number of people killed or injured in the latest shelling. According to Sinehubov, at least 11 people were murdered and scores more were injured in Monday’s shelling in Kharkiv.
Ukrainian troops, he added, are fending off Russian attempts to move on the 1.4 million-person city. A big explosion near the towering Soviet-era administration building on Kharkiv’s centre plaza struck many cars parked in front of it, shattering windows but leaving the structure substantially intact, according to videos uploaded on Ukrainian social networks and media.
Russia launched GRAD and cruise missiles at Kharkiv, according to Sinehubov, but the city defence held. “These strikes constitute genocide against the Ukrainian people, a war crime against civilians!” he declared.
