Russian rocket barrage kills civilians as first talks show no progress
Russian rocket barrage kills civilians as first talks show no progress
The first talk between Ukraine and Russia aimed to stop the Russian invasion issued Monday by deadly Russian rocket attacks in Kharkiv, the second largest city of Ukraine, who raised a new alarm about how far the Kremlin was willing to beat smaller neighbors.
Bombardment of the Kharkiv residential area, which may have included ammunition clusters internationally, killing at least nine civilians and dozens of injured.
With the Ukrainian-Russian talks ended with a little more than the agreement to meet again, bombings signal the potential for changes in the largest military mobilization in Europe since World War II, where Russia has met unexpectedly rigid resistance by many and strong punishment of many people in this world.
Today shows that this is not only a war, it is our murder, the people of Ukraine,” Mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, said in the video posted on Facebook. “This is the first time in its history that the city of Kharkiv has gone through something like this: shells that hit housing houses, kill and damage innocent citizens.”
Russian forces have dropped the outskirts of Kharkiv, an East Ukrainian city with 1.5 million people, since launching an invasion last week. But they seem to avoid solid-populated areas.
On Monday, the fifth day of Russian attacks, which changed.
Terekhov said four people had been killed when they emerged from a bomb protection to find water. And he said the family of five – two adults and three children – burned alive when a shell hit their car. 37 other people were injured, he said.
Both Russia and Ukraine are members of the agreement that prohibits cluster munitions, which are deadly bombs that explode in the air above the area, hit military targets and civilians. But its use might mark a new chapter – and bloodier in battle for Ukraine.
“We believe that this is a cluster munition attack,” Stephen Goose, an ammunition expert at Human Rights Watch, said in an email.
The indiscriminate nature of the Kharkiv attack, clarified in the video verified by the New York Times, can indicate impatience by President Vladimir Putin with his military progress in what many analysts outside – and some Ukrainian commanders themselves – have predicted Russian victory. More than enemies that come out and outside the area.
Putin complaint complaint decision, announced last week, to attack Ukraine had inspired a broad resistance in the former Soviet Republic and so on. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians escaped from their homeland, but many stayed, turned to any weapon to try to thwart the invaders.
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