Russia hits Kharkiv supermarket in deadly attack
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as the airstrike “a manifestation of Russian insanity”.
Scores of individuals have been killed or wounded when an aerial bomb hit a big retailer within the metropolis of Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, in keeping with native officers.
The airstrike brought on an enormous hearth to interrupt out, with large plumes of smoke seen filling the sky in social media footage.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned greater than 200 folks may have been inside the shop.
A second bomb hit town’s central park, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned.
Zelenskyy known as the airstrike “a manifestation of Russian insanity”, and appealed to Western international locations to supply Ukraine with air defence methods.
“Once we inform world leaders that Ukraine requires sufficient air defence safety … we are actually speaking about how to not enable such terrorist strikes,” he mentioned in a put up on X.
“Solely madmen like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin are able to killing and terrorising folks on this means,” Zelenskyy added.
Kharkiv area is located about 20 kilometres from the Russian border.
Moscow’s troops have in current weeks captured villages within the space as a part of a broad push, and analysts say they could be making an attempt to get inside artillery vary of Kharkiv metropolis.
Ukrainian authorities have evacuated greater than 11,000 folks from the area for the reason that begin of the offensive on 10 Could.
Russia’s Kharkiv push seems to be a coordinated new offensive that features testing Ukrainian defences within the Donetsk area additional south, the place Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned Saturday that its forces had taken over the village of Arkhanhelske.
They’ve additionally launched incursions within the northern Sumy and Chernihiv areas.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has mentioned the Kremlin’s military is trying to create a “buffer zone” within the Kharkiv area to forestall Ukrainian cross-border assaults.