Unusual photos from Ukraine show before and after the indiscriminate bombing and deletion of settlements by Russian forces.
The photos show the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, after a rocket attack in front of a civilian public administration building that destroyed the road outside and blew up the windows of the building itself on Tuesday morning.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Greenspeaks in a video posted on Facebooksaid the attack on Freedom Square in Kharkiv was “open, undisguised terror” and branded Russia “Terrorist state” for indiscriminate shelling of Kharkiv – although Moscow claims its forces are focused only on military infrastructure.
A day earlier, Zelensky accused the Russian president Vladimir Putin of war crimes after Moscow forces undertook what were considered cluster and vacuum bomb attacks in an attempt to reverse the course of the conflict they have been losing so far.
Footage from inside the civilian public administration building in Kharkiv on Tuesday showed it was badly damaged, with ceilings collapsing and rubble scattering around.
People stranded in Ukrainian cities were preparing to resume shelling and artillery fire today after a 40-mile-long death convoy arrived on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv at night and when Russian forces surrounded Kharkiv and Mariupol after reaching the center. of Kherson.
City hall in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv before and after the bombings of a Russian rocket attack that destroyed the road outside and blew up the windows of the building itself on Tuesday morning, killing at least ten people
Freedom Square in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, before and after it was destroyed in indiscriminate shelling by Russian forces on Tuesday (March 1st)
Hundreds of civilians have been reported since Russian troops entered Ukraine last week to carry out Putin’s mission to overthrow Zelensky’s pro-Western government.
Russian forces have carried out massive bombardment and surrounded urban centers, including Kharkiv, a predominantly Russian-speaking city near Russia’s border with a population of about 1.4 million, but Ukraine insists no major city has been captured yet.
“Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkov … and attacked a local hospital,” the Ukrainian army said in a statement to the Telegram news app. “The battle between the invaders and the Ukrainians continues.”
Russia struck a residential building in the city on Tuesday, killing eight people, comparing it to the massacres of civilians in Sarajevo in the 1990s and the condemnation of what Zelenski called a “war crime”.
A fire broke out in the barracks of the Kharkov Flight School on Wednesday after an air strike, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister.
Fighting took place in Kharkov on Wednesday after Russian paratroopers descended and attacked a military hospital before airstrikes on police, state agencies and the security service.
Part of Karazin National University was set on fire early Wednesday after a rocket that appeared to be aimed at a nearby police headquarters or interior ministry hit the college’s sociology department.
At least 21 people have been killed and 112 wounded in shelling of Kharkiv in the past 24 hours, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said, adding that there were virtually no areas left in Kharkiv where an artillery shell had not yet struck. ‘
A police building in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, before and after being hit by a Russian missile, blew out windows and caused a huge fire
Road in front of a police building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Tuesday after being hit by shelling, leaving debris scattered on streets outside
The city of Konotop, 150 miles north of Kharkiv, received an ultimatum from surrounding Russian forces on Wednesday – to surrender or be destroyed by artillery – as Putin’s people resorted to siege tactics.
Putin’s forces also claimed to have captured Kherson, a major industrial center in the south, overnight, although the mayor remained challenging, posting on Facebook: “We are still Ukraine. Still solid. Mariupol, also to the south, came under renewed fire as Russian forces tried to encircle it.
In Zhytomyr, a city west of Kyiv, air strikes hit the headquarters of the 95th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while also damaging a hospital, killing two people. The city of Bila Tserkva, about 50 miles south of Kyiv, was also hit during the night.
Ukraine’s armed forces said Wednesday morning that Russia was “trying to move in all directions” but “has resistance everywhere and is suffering losses”. According to him, 5,840 Russian soldiers have been killed so far – although this figure cannot be verified.
Kharkov was hit by more Russian missiles on Tuesday morning, one in front of a civilian public administration building that was badly damaged in the blast. The rocket can be seen for a split second before hitting the building, causing a massive explosion
The rocket caused enormous damage to the building and spewed a huge stream of smoke after the explosion
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of war crimes on Monday after Vladimir Putin’s forces launched attacks believed to be cluster and vacuum bombs on the fifth day of the invasion. Above: Kharkiv, the second city in Ukraine to come under heavy attack on Monday
Firefighters are fighting to put out the fire in Kharkiv as the city was subjected to renewed air strikes today, with a spokesman saying there was almost no part of the city left untouched.
Rescuers and medics are pictured near the district administration building in downtown Kharkiv, making their way through the rubble after the blast
Flags of Kharkiv and Ukraine are depicted hanging from a blown window of the administration building after the Russian missile attack as a symbol of disobedience
The bombing of Kharkiv continued on Tuesday morning with a rocket landing right in front of the building of the civil public administration, destroying the road outside and blowing up the windows of the building itself. Footage from inside shows that the building is badly damaged, with collapsed ceilings and scattered rubble around
Ukrainian emergency services remove body of victim from damaged city hall building after shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Firefighters are trying to put out the burning faculty of sociology at Karazin National University, which was hit by a strike that appears to have been aimed at nearby government buildings.
Ukrainian military says Russia has resumed its attack “on all fronts” today, with paratroopers landing in Kharkiv, tanks and trucks rushing to the center of Kherson and striking in Mariupol and Zhytomyr