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Russian airborne troops parachuted into Kharkiv late last night. Fighting was then raging in this city in eastern Ukraine.
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“Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkiv […] and attacked a local hospital,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement on Telegram.
At press time, a fight was underway there between the Russians and the Ukrainians.
This announcement comes on the seventh day of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, launched on February 24 and which has intensified in recent days.
Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million inhabitants near the border with Russia, had already been targeted earlier yesterday by several bombings, which left at least ten dead and more than 20 injured, according to local authorities.
tower under attack
The Russian military also hit strategic targets yesterday, hitting Kyiv’s television tower and shelling urban areas, heightening the level of panic across the country.
In the Ukrainian capital, five people died and five others were injured when the television tower was hit.
On images released by the authorities, we see her drowned in thick gray smoke, but still standing.
An hour after the attack, most Ukrainian channels seemed to be functioning normally again.
scramble the message
Photo: AFP
A firefighter responds to a bystander who was killed in the Kyiv television tower attack on Tuesday.
” We [les Russes] really wants to take away the capacity of the government [ukrainien] to inform, raise awareness and carry out its own military propaganda”, sums up François Audet, Director General of the Canadian Observatory on Crises and Humanitarian Aid.
Such bombardments also aim to create “political pressure strong enough for the negotiations which have begun to be to the advantage of the Russians”, adds Mr. Audet.
Such bombardments also aim to create “political pressure strong enough for the negotiations which have begun to be to the advantage of the Russians”, adds Mr. Audet.
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Everything indicates that Vladimir Putin will opt for similar strategies in the coming days, he continues.
Civilians targeted
Meanwhile, the presence of soldiers around Kyiv is increasing.
The military convoy which stretched for about sixty kilometers to the north was almost at a standstill on the sixth day of the invasion.
The next few days could thus be deadly. “We are seeing an increase in attacks against civilians,” notes François Audet.
In Mariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov, more than a hundred people were injured in Russian fire, according to the mayor of the city, Vadim Boitchenko, quoted by Ukrainian media.
Photo: AFP
Paramedics carried a body out of Kharkiv City Hall, which was destroyed in the attack.
In Kherson, whose entrances were already controlled by Russian forces, the latter took control of the railway station and the port last night, local media reported.
Photo: AFP
A man stands in a crater that was caused by a Russian bomb on Tuesday in Brovary. The bomb hit a military installation.
In Borodianka, 50 km from Kyiv, Russian airstrikes destroyed two residential buildings yesterday, according to Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Djeppar, who shared a video of the partially ruined gray buildings, with apartments in flames.
An elite Chechen team that was to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “neutralized” yesterday, several media report.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, claimed in a televised address that the unit “which came to kill [son] president, was eliminated”, indicates the DailyMail.
Danilov would have received information from the Federal Security Service of Russia, allowing to “directly destroy” the commando.
The true face of war
Some of the photos we’re posting today are particularly harsh and difficult to look at. We are well aware of this, but we have decided to publish them in order to show all the horror and violence of a war. We consider it our role to show the reality that the people of Ukraine are living, even if it is shocking. The vast majority of our readers are adults and are knowledgeable. However, we recommend that parents do not let their children watch them alone and without explanation.
Dany Doucet
Chief Editor