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'Horrendous' rocket attack kills civilians in Kharkiv as Moscow ... (The Guardian)

At least nine people have been killed and 37 injured after Russian forces launched multiple rocket strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in what ...

He explained that he was now fleeing the city on a packed train heading to the west. Crowds gathered outside to protest and sang the Ukrainian national anthem. It shows a patch of blood and the motor part of a Grad missile sticking out of the concrete pavement. “We hear planes in the sky. Water drops down from a hole in the ceiling. Volodymyrovich said he ventured out into the streets on Monday afternoon and walked with his brother to the railway station. The situation had worsened, he said: “Bombing has been going on from morning to evening. Ukraine’s interior ministry put the figure higher and said dozens had died in the attack, with hundreds injured. When she looked out from her balcony she saw the woman lying in agony, her leg blown off and to one side,” Artem Volodymyrovich, a 31-year-old English teacher, said. She saw what happened and heard the sound of the rocket. Video showed dozens of Grad missiles raining down on the centre of Ukraine’s second-biggest city, landing among residential buildings. It showed us that it’s not just a war, this is a massacre of Ukrainian people,” Terekhov said on his Telegram account.

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Ukraine invasion: Three children among nine dead as footage ... (Sky News)

Footage showing the series of explosions outside a residential building comes after Sky News pinpointed two other videos to northeastern Kharkiv - with a ...

Another video shows a similar series of quick explosions on another building from a distance below a cloud of thick white smoke - with a woman heard sobbing in the background. Sky News has pinpointed two separate videos to northeastern Kharkiv and a military expert said the shelling appears to be the classic pattern for a cluster munition. Footage showing the series of explosions outside a residential building comes after Sky News pinpointed two other videos to northeastern Kharkiv - with a military expert saying the shelling appears to be the classic pattern for a cluster munition.

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One battle in Kharkiv shows how Ukraine is fighting back against the ... (CNN)

It was approached by Russian troops shortly after the invasion began last Thursday, but for three days, Ukrainian forces held the Russians at bay. Then, on ...

Sporadic gunfire is heard and some Ukrainian forces move along a wall in the background. One showed a rocket booster lodged in the street pavement, as civilians looked on. The troops' efforts to retreat appear to have been stopped by another attack. He tells the journalist there were between 12 and 15 people in the group. "There are two [military vehicles] as far as I can see," someone says in the video. The Russian troops are seen huddled behind their vehicles.

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Thirty Azerbaijanis evacuated from Kharkiv (AzerNews)

Thirty Azerbaijanis have been evacuated from the most dangerous districts of Kharkiv to the Ukrainian-Polish border, Azerbaijan's honorary consulate in ...

Three Azerbaijani drivers were injured as a result of a shooting yesterday [February 27] in Kharkiv. One of them has already been discharged after outpatient treatment. “The situation in the Kharkiv region remains tense. They added that the process of evacuating compatriots will continue depending on the situation.

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Kharkiv bombardment represents escalation of Russia's tactics (Financial Times)

We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. The artillery barrage that Russia launched on Monday against ...

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Several killed as Russian rockets pound Ukraine's Kharkiv (Aljazeera.com)

At least 11 people have been killed by Russian rocket attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

“Control over Kharkiv is completely ours! Videos posted on Ukrainian media and social networks showed Russian vehicles moving across the city of about 1.4 million people and a light vehicle burning on the street. The deaths in Kharkiv came a day after the Ukrainian troops repelled a significant Russian attack on the city on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian state communications service said in a post on Telegram that a missile had hit a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv near the border with Belarus. Russian news agency Interfax reported that Russian troops advanced from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson towards the city of Mykolaiv. At least 11 people have been killed by Russian rocket attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Dozens wounded in clashes in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv (Cumnock Chronicle)

At least 44 people have been wounded in fighting in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, and seven of them died in hospitals, Ukrainian authorities said. It was not clear if the casualties, which covered the past 24 hours, were all civilians.

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Dozens wounded in shelling of Kharkiv as Russia strikes buildings ... (The Washington Post)

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the open-source group Bellingcat have identified the use of cluster munitions in other Russian attacks in Ukraine ...

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The last independent newsletter in Russia suspended its operations. In Chechnya, Russia was similarly accused of indiscriminately targeting civilian populations, among other alleged war crimes, during the second Chechen conflict from 1999 to 2005. In two clips that were verified, flashes of light appear in rapid succession as columns of smoke rise. In the aftermath, images circulated online of damaged buildings and streets dotted with blood and hastily discarded groceries. Oleh Synehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, said Monday that “dozens are dying” and that at least 11 people were confirmed dead. He was referring to Russian BM-21 “Grad” 122-millimeter rockets fired from truck-mounted multiple-rocket launchers. As the shelling began, many Kharkiv residents were lining up at grocery stores and other shops to replenish supplies after being shut in for several days. But we’re standing and we’ll win.” Kharkiv resident Alexey Zavrazhnyi, 32, said a rocket fell in a playground about 700 meters from his apartment. Luckily no one was injured here, he said, but elsewhere in the city he saw blood on the street. They met by Ukraine’s border with Belarus, a key Russian ally.

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