A Russian missile broke a 240-meter TV tower in Kharkiv. President Zelenskyy said this is part of Russia’s plan to make the city unlivable.
Exciting video from Reuters showed the tall pole of the TV tower breaking and falling to the ground in a city that has been hit by missile and drone attacks for weeks.
The leader of Ukraine told the US President Joe Biden about the airstrike that happened a few minutes before they talked on the phone.
“He said Russia wants to make the city impossible to live in,” according to a message on the Telegram app.
Later, during his video speech at night, the president said that the attack was a clear attempt to scare people and make the city feel unsafe. It was also an attempt to limit Kharkiv’s ability to communicate and access information.
Near the border
The city of Kharkiv is in the northeast and has 1.3 million people. It is only 30 km from the Russian border, which makes it an easy target for missiles and other weapons because Ukraine’s air defenses are not strong.
The energy system has been badly damaged by Russia’s big attacks.
“Right now, the digital TV signal is not working well,” said the regional governor Oleh Synehubov.
No one got hurt because the workers had found a safe place to stay.
Synehubov said that a missile attack started a fire at a poultry farm near Kharkiv, but no one got hurt. And lawyers said that one person died in the bombing of a village to the southeast of the city.
Reuters recorded a video showing the fallen part of the tower in a nearby forested area. The buildings next to the tower were severely damaged by falling pieces of the tower.
The State Special Communications Service said the tower was partly damaged, possibly from a Kh-59 missile strike.
The message said the TV signal was temporarily not working. They were trying to fix it. They told people to use cable, online TV, or the radio instead.
The video from Reuters did not show the missile hitting, but it did show a big cloud of smoke and the mast falling down.
The video was confirmed by comparing it with another video from a different angle that also showed the top of the tower falling down at the same time.
In early March 2022, Russia attacked Kharkiv’s television tower multiple times after starting a big invasion. The signal was interrupted.
Recently, Moscow has increased its attacks, and Ukraine does not have enough ways to defend against them in the air. Kharkiv and the nearby area have had the strongest attacks.
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Russian airstrike destroyed television tower in Kharkiv, Ukraine – Zelenskyy
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7 “burned alive” after Russia strikes oil station in Kharkiv
Seven people died in a Russian drone attack in the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. This caused a big fire.
Two parents and their three young boys were killed in a fire at their home, according to regional deputy police chief Serhiy Blovinov.
The entire street. “He said it was like a hellish melted mess when the attack happened on Friday night,” he told Ukrainian TV.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that 15 houses belonging to individuals were completely destroyed by fire.
President Zelensky promised to take strong action against Russian acts of terrorism.
He found out that the three children who died were named Oleksiy, who was 7 years old, Mykhailo, who was 4 years old, and Pavlo, who was only 7 months old.
An old couple died in a fire in a house on Kotelna street in the eastern Nemyshlianskyi district.
The Mayor Terekhov said in a video that the Russian attacker is destroying our city. “We will succeed. “We will be victorious,” he said.
He said the Russian attack made 57 people in Russia homeless and without any belongings.
Ukraine’s leaders said a gas station was hit, but then said they were wrong.
Kharkiv, a big city in Ukraine close to Russia, has been attacked by Russians almost every day in the past few days, resulting in a lot of deaths.
One man got hurt in a Russian drone attack in Odesa, a city in southern Ukraine, on Friday night.
Russia’s army did not say anything about the attacks that were reported.
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Ukraine claims Russian drone strike on Kharkiv killed three children
At least seven people died after Russian drones attacked the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine.
Oleh Syniehubov says that a baby and two kids, aged four and seven, were hurt.
Pictures from the town close to the Russian border show some houses on fire because a petrol station was hit.
A man got hurt in a drone attack in the southern city of Odesa, Ukraine, by Russia.
Upset and emotional, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said that the Russian attacker is destroying our city.
“We will succeed in the end. “We are going to win,” he said in a video from where the Russian attack happened.
He said that 14 houses were burned down.
The Russian military has not said anything about the strikes that were reported.
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Russian strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv claimed lives of citizens
Russian missiles hit Kyiv and Kharkiv, and killed four people. Many others were hurt according to officials.
Three people died and 42 were hurt when houses were hit in Kharkiv on Tuesday.
They were two women, one was 40 years old and the other was 56 years old.
The mayor of the city said that some of the apartment buildings were destroyed and rescue workers were searching through the debris to find people who may be alive.
The sky over Kharkiv turned orange because of a fire from Russian missiles. The city is near the border, so it’s hard to stop the missiles in the sky.
Natalia from Kharkiv said to the media that she hasn’t heard this much noise since the war began. She said, “My house was shaking. ” It was very noisy. There were loud booms, then ten seconds later there was another loud noise.
A lot of people don’t have electricity and heat. “I only feel fear and hatred right now,” she said.
At least one person died in the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Kyiv, there was an air attack that lasted for over two and a half hours, the longest since 2 January. Many people got hurt when a large building with apartments caught on fire and another building was also damaged.
A representative said a young woman was rescued from the collapsed building. At first, rescuers thought she was dead, but she is now in the hospital in critical condition. Many people were hurt in the central and western districts of Kyiv, Solomianskyi and Sviatoshynskyi.
In Sviatoshinsky, some houses were broken. A few hours after the attacks, the emergency services told the media that they were still at the place of the attacks looking for bombs. They thought there might be a part of a missile that didn’t explode.
Three more parts of Kyiv were also harmed by debris falling after the air defenses stopped the Russian missiles. Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko’s office reports that 20 people are hurt and 13 are in the hospital, including kids.
In another part of the city, after the attack, people came out of their bomb shelters and houses to see the damage.
In places that were not affected this time, people went about their morning like they normally do. Stores were open, and there were lots of people on the roads and streets.
The media went to a hospital where the workers kept working even though there were air raids and they heard the explosions and felt the doors shaking.
Ukraine’s air force destroyed 21 out of 41 missiles launched by Russia last night.
Missiles are hitting Ukraine’s cities more often now, and it’s very dangerous. The attacks have been getting worse in the last few weeks.
Ukraine is worried that Western countries are not giving them the weapons they need. Andriy Yermak, who works for the president, showed a video of the damage in Kharkiv and said, “Look at what’s happening in Kharkiv. ” We are more than just a fortress. “We want guns. ”
Ukrainian soldiers have attacked Russian fuel facilities, including a big attack on an oil terminal in the city of St Petersburg in the last week.
Novatek, an energy company, had to stop some of its work because of a fire at its Ust-Luga Baltic Sea export complex.
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Russian missile kills 10-year-old boy in Kharkiv while sleeping – Ukraine
A 10-year-old boy was sleeping when Russia bombed the city of Kharkiv, and he sadly died. Ukrainian officials shared this information.
A photo claiming to show the boy’s body lying in the rubble was shared on social media by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
He looked like he was covered with a blue blanket and dust. There were broken things all around him, and some people who were there to help.
A child’s body covered with a blanket. This morning, he was killed in Kharkiv by a missile from Russia. “The ministry said that it seemed like the boy was sleeping. ”
The Iskander is a type of missile from Russia. It can reach the city of Kharkiv, which is near the border of Ukraine, very quickly.
CNN has not checked or verified the photo on its own.
A 68-year-old lady, who was the grandmother of the boy, died in the attacks. The boy’s 11-month-old brother was injured along with 30 other people. Oleh Syniehubov, the chief of Kharkiv’s regional state administration, gave this information.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in his speech on Friday evening that the parents and 11-month-old brother of the boys are currently receiving treatment in a hospital.
“I extend my sympathy to all who have lost their loved ones due to Russia,” he said.
The 10-year-old is one of over 500 children who have died in Ukraine because of Russia’s invasion. As of October 6th, in Ukraine, 505 children have died and more than 1,129 have been hurt with different levels of seriousness, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
On Friday, there was an attack in Kharkiv. This happened one day after a very destructive missile strike in Hroza, where another child and at least 51 other people were killed. There are still two kids and two grown-ups who cannot be found after the attack in Hroza.
It’s hard to believe that people are capable of doing such things. The First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, said that Russians attacked a grocery store and a cafe in Hroza village in the Kharkiv region. “This attack is really mean and doesn’t make any sense, like the war started by RF (the Russian Federation),” she said.
On Friday, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba stated that the attacks on Kharkiv and Hroza were terrible acts that demonstrate the need for ongoing and increased international support for Ukraine.
“Making it weaker would only lead to more acts of violence and violation of human rights like this,” he said.
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Kharkiv to see first underground school in war-torn Ukraine
The Mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, has announced plans for Ukraine’s inaugural underground school to be constructed in the northeastern city.
“Such a shelter will allow thousands of children to continue their in-person education safely even during missile threats,” he said.
Rocket attacks once again struck the Kharkiv region on Monday, underscoring the frequency of such attacks in the area.
Ukraine reports that more than 360 educational facilities have been destroyed, and over 3,000 have sustained damage since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
Unicef, the UN children’s agency, has revealed that only a third of Ukraine’s schoolchildren are currently able to attend in-person classes due to ongoing deadly Russian missile and drone attacks, as well as shelling.
Many of these students have been compelled to attend makeshift classes in underground metro stations and other makeshift shelters, often lacking proper heating.
Recently, the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency noted the challenges faced by many schools in the 27-member bloc in integrating children who have fled the conflict in Ukraine. The agency reported that approximately 1.3 million Ukrainian children are currently residing in the EU.
In Sunday’s post on social media, the Kharkiv mayor announced that “it is here that we plan to build the first underground school in Ukraine”.
Mr Terekhov said the school “will meet the most modern requirements for defensive buildings”.
And he stressed that the city authorities “will not reduce educational expenditure by a single hryvnia [Ukraine’s currency] this year or next year, despite the lack of budget funds”.
The mayor gave no details on when the underground school would open, and how many pupils would be able to study there.
In the previous month, over 1,000 pupils in Kharkiv embarked on their new school year, attending classes at five underground stations that had been transformed into “metro-schools.”
To facilitate their attendance, students are transported to these metro-schools by buses and are divided into two shifts. The first shift commences at 09:00 local time, followed by the second shift at 13:00. Each underground station is equipped with police and rescue personnel to ensure the students’ safety.
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Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia reports numerous Russian missile strikes
Officials have reported that a new wave of attacks is targeting the city’s energy infrastructure in the southeast as well as in Kharkiv.
Russian missile attacks have reportedly targeted Zaporizhzhia in the southeast and Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, officials said.
Friday morning saw at least 17 Russian missile strikes on Zaporizhzhia in the space of an hour, according to the city’s acting mayor, Anatolii Kurtiev, who also noted that the missiles were aimed at energy infrastructure.
Another nighttime attack campaign by Russian forces resulted in the loss of electricity in some areas of Kharkiv.
“The occupiers hit critical infrastructure. There were about 10 explosions,” Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synehubov said on Telegram. “In some regions, there are power cuts. Emergency services are on site.”
There were no immediate words on casualties in either Zaporizhzhia or Kharkiv.
Russian forces have been advancing recently for the first time in half a year, in hard-fought battles that both sides describe as some of the bloodiest of the war.
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Russia fires new waves of missiles at Ukraine and hits energy infrastructure
Russia launched fresh waves of missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 14 people in a strike on an apartment block in the eastern city of Dnipro.
A number of other cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, were also hit.
Much of Ukraine is now under an emergency blackout after missiles hit power infrastructure in several cities.
Earlier, the UK said it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to help the country’s defence.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Challengers, the British army’s main battle tank, would help Kyiv’s forces “push Russian troops back”.
Russia responded by saying that providing more weapons to Ukraine would lead to intensified Russian operations and more civilian casualties.
Later on Saturday – a day when Ukrainians celebrate the Old (or Orthodox) New Year – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks on civilian targets could be stopped only if Ukraine’s Western partners supplied necessary weapons.
“What is needed for this? Those weapons which are in the depots of our partners and which our soldiers are waiting for so much,” he said in his nightly video address, adding that his forces shot down more than 20 out of 30 Russian missiles fired at Ukraine.
The devastating strike in Dnipro hit the entrance of a nine-storey building, turning several floors into smouldering rubble, and leaving 73 injured, including 14 children, Ukrainian officials said, in what is likely to be the worst attack in months.
A sizeable crowd gathered to watch the rescue effort at the site of the strike, while others joined rescue workers in a desperate search for survivors. There were urgent calls, human chains of volunteers clearing rubble and torch beams piercing thick clouds of dust and smoke.
In his address, Mr Zelensky said debris clearance in Dnipro would continue all night: “We are fighting for every person, every life.” So far, 38 people have been rescued from the building, including six children, officials say.
There is no information yet on why the apartment block was the object of such devastation, as it is some distance from the nearest power facility.
On a day when Russia seemed intent, once again, on targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, this could have been one of the less accurate missiles in Russia’s arsenal, or something brought down by Ukraine’s air defences – although on the face of it, this seems a less likely explanation.
It has been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. Mr Zelensky said of the energy infrastructure facilities hit on Saturday that the most difficult situation was in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions.
Ukrainian state energy company Ukrenergo earlier said round-the-clock consumption limits had been set for all regions until midnight local time.
Officials, in the West and in Ukraine, had begun to wonder if Russia’s “energy war” might be coming to an end, due to a possible shortage of suitable missiles and the evident fact the strategy has yet to break Ukraine’s spirit.
Saturday’s attacks suggest Moscow still thinks it is a tactic worth pursuing.
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Ukraine conserves energy following damage to power plants
Ukrainians are experiencing their first large-scale statewide power outages as officials reduce supply.
The action is intended to enable energy providers to repair power plants damaged by Russian air attacks.
The president’s office told Ukrainians late on Wednesday to minimise electricity use from 7 am to 11 pm and prepare for temporary blackouts if this was not done.
No schedule was announced for the outages, but cities such as the capital, Kyiv, and Kharkiv announced curbs on the use of electric-powered public transport such as trolleybuses.
They also reduced the frequency of trains on the metro.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russian air strikes damaged 30 percent of Ukraine’s power stations in just over a week.
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive will not alter Russia’s goals – Putin
Vladimir Putin has stated in his first public remarks on the subject that Russia’s plans will not be altered by the current counteroffensive by Ukraine.
In a quick counterattack, Ukrainian forces claim to have taken over 8,000 square kilometres (3,000 square miles) in the northeastern Kharkiv region in just six days.
However, Mr. Putin claimed he wasn’t in a rush, and the attack in the Donbass region of Ukraine is still on schedule.
Additionally, he pointed out that Russia has not yet sent out all of its forces.
“Our offensive operation in the Donbas is not stopping. They’re moving forward – not at a very fast pace – but they are gradually taking more and more territory,” he said after a summit in Uzbekistan.
The industrial Donbas region in east Ukraine is the focus of Russia’s invasion, which Mr Putin falsely claims is necessary to save Russian speakers from genocide.
Parts of the Donbas have been occupied by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. The Kharkiv region, where Ukraine’s recent counter-attack was launched, is not part of the Donbas.
In Friday’s comments, Mr Putin threatened a “more serious” response if Ukrainian attacks continue.
“I remind you that the Russian army isn’t fighting in its entirety… Only the professional army is fighting.”
Russia initially denied sending conscript soldiers to Ukraine, but several officers were disciplined after cases came to light of conscripts being forced to sign contracts and in some instances being taken, prisoner.
So far, Russia has not officially declared war on Ukraine and only refers to its invasion as a “special military operation”.
But after Russia’s recent losses, some pro-Kremlin commentators have called for more forces to be mobilised. A recently leaked video that appears to show an attempt to recruit convicts to a private military company suggests Russia is struggling to find enough men willing to fight.
Later on Friday, US President Joe Biden reiterated his call on Russia to refrain from using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.
Speaking during an interview with CBS News, Mr Biden said such action would “change the face of war unlike anything since World War Two”.
President Putin put the country’s nuclear forces on a “special” alert following its invasion of Ukraine in February.
The Russian leader has rarely left his country since then.
This week’s visit to the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan – where he met the Chinese leader Xi Jinping – highlights his need to foster ties with Asian countries after being sidelined by the West.
But even there, leaders have expressed concern over the invasion.
“Today’s time is not a time for war,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Mr Putin.
And on the previous day, Mr Putin hinted that Xi Jinping also disapproved.
“We understand your questions and concerns,” he told the Chinese leader in reference to the war.