Russia bombs a university in Kharkiv and leaves at least four dead

At least four people were killed and nine wounded in Russian shelling on Wednesday morning of the headquarters of the security services and a university in the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, rescuers said. Ukraine.

“At the moment ten people could be removed from the rubble. The provisional balance is four dead and nine wounded. This same source affirmed on social networks at a time when Kharkov is suffering from the offensive of the Russian forces. Twenty people died the day before in bombings in that city in the east of the country.

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The center of Kharkivthe second largest city in Ukraine and located in the east of the country, was attacked by Russian forces around 0610 GMT with missiles against several buildings, said the operational center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

“On March 2 around 08:10 local time (06:10 GMT) in Kharkivas a result of a missile attack on the building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the State Unitary Enterprise of the National Police in the region of Kharkiv and the building of the National University of Kharkov”, he indicated in his official Telegram account.

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Previously, the operational center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the Early morning landing of Russian airborne troops in Kharkivwhich is still under Ukrainian control, although Russian soldiers seized the train station and river port, according to the mayor, Igor Kolykhayev.

“A group of Russian paratroopers landed on Kharkiv”said the operational center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on his Telegram channel.

According to what he said, “the occupants attacked the hospital, the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Northern Region” and a battle broke out between the invaders and the Ukrainian defenders.

The adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Anton Gerashchenko, signed today on his Telegram account that “Kharkivwas constantly under fire from the Russians.”

“All attacks were repulsed, the enemy suffered significant losses, including more than 40 units of equipment, positions were held”assured.

He pointed out that at night Su-25 planes bombed Chuguev, in the region of Kharkivand in Kharkiv same.

“The fires due to the air raid are still being extinguished, shells are detonated”reported the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Oleg Sinegubov, quoted by Gershchenko.

The advance of Russian troops in Ukraine. (AFP).

On Tuesday one of the attacks was the headquarters of the regional administration, in which at least 7 people died and 24 were injured.

The second bombing was recorded in a residential building, according to the State Emergency Service, and caused 8 deaths and 6 injuries.

Sinebúgov stated that the day before, 21 people died as a result of the Russian attacks, and another 112 were injured.

Source: AFP and EFE

Military might of Russia and Ukraine. (Trade).

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