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full screen A damaged apartment building in Kharkiv after Wednesday’s Russian air strike. Photo: Andrii Marienko/AP/TT
Russia’s airstrikes against the large city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine continue.
A restaurant was destroyed in an attack shortly after midnight local time Thursday night, Mayor Ihor Terechov said on Telegram. No one seems to have been injured in that particular attack, he writes.
Two hours later, the mayor reports another explosion in the city.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Air Force urges Kharkiv residents to seek shelter and warns of imminent robot attacks.
Earlier in the day, a man was killed and 19 other people were injured, including four children, when Russian aerial bombs struck central parts of the city. 18 apartment buildings were damaged.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has been struggling for the past week with widespread power outages and disruptions to water and heating supplies as a result of the Russian attacks.
“Try to force more than a million people into blackouts, constant robot attacks and “shaheds” (attack drones). Now – aerial bombs. Just on an ordinary street, by houses, a school, ordinary civil infrastructure,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on Wednesday.
He underlines that it is important that Ukraine quickly gets access to F-16 type fighter planes in order to defend itself, which several Western countries have promised.