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Russia bombs Freedom Square and the opera house in Kharkiv

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Russia bombs Freedom Square and the opera house in Kharkiv

Russia bombs Freedom Square and the opera house in Kharkiv

According to officials, Russian missiles and rockets struck the cultural heart of Ukraine’s second-largest city in a deadly and “cruel” attack.

In the northeastern city of Kharkiv’s Freedom Square, an opera house, a concert hall, and government offices were attack. According to local authorities, at least ten people were kill, and 35 others were injured. The attack came as Ukraine’s president accused Russia of war crimes.

“This is the cost of liberty,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky. “This is terrorism direct at Ukraine. There were no military targets in the square, nor are there any in Kharkiv’s residential districts, which are subject to rocket artillery fire, “He continue.

According to video footage, a missile was see hitting the local government building and exploding. Causing a massive fireball and blowing out windows in surrounding buildings.

Russia bombs Freedom Square and the opera house
Russia bombs Freedom Square and the opera house

Freedom Square is a city landmark and the second-largest city-center square in Europe.

Kharkiv has been heavily bomb for days, with 16 people kill before Tuesday’s attack, according to Mr. Zelensky. His government accuses Russia of attempting to seize Kharkiv and other cities, including the capital Kyiv, where a massive Russian armored convoy is on its way.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, said the world must do more to punish Russia for the “barbaric” attack on Freedom Square also residential areas. Accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing “more war crimes out of rage, murdering innocent civilians.”

On the sixth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, attacks on multiple fronts continued. But the Russian advance was reportedly slow by Ukrainian resistance.

People in Kherson, Ukraine’s southernmost city, are now surround. The mayor of Mariupol, a port city also in Ukraine’s south, says his city has been shell nonstop overnight.

Meanwhile, new satellite images showed a 40-mile (64-kilometer) long Russian military convoy snaking. Its way toward Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, where air raid sirens rang out again on Tuesday morning.

The convoy, which appears to have slow in the last 24 hours, is said to be less than 18 miles (30 kilometers) from Kyiv and consists of armor vehicles, tanks, artillery, and logistical vehicles.

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