At least 12 people were killed, including a child, and nearly 40 were injured in last night’s rocket attacks on Kharkov and the nearby city of Krasnograd. This was stated by the mayor of Kharkov, the second largest in the country after Kyiv, Igor Tereev and the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. As Terezhov said on Wednesday evening, “there were at least four rocket attacks (…) numerous fires were declared.”
“The largest fire broke out in the Kholodnogorsk region. According to rescuers, the building is on fire and is about to collapse. The first rocket attacks, according to Sinegubov, hit a three-story residential building on Saltovka, built for people who lost their homes as a result of the bombing and where mostly old people and children lived. A local official assured that “the destruction is terrible. 7 people died. 16 people were injured, including an 11-year-old boy,” and the search continues under the rubble for possible survivors or bodies.
“The Russians brutally and deliberately beat civilians. And now their so-called media are spreading lies about allegedly military installations. But they did not attack any military facility, but only civilians, including pensioners and children. This is real terrorism,” Sinegubov stressed in his Telegram channel. According to the director of the regional department of civil protection Ivan Sokol, at the time of the explosion “there were about 30 people in the house.”
Later, in the morning, Tereev reported in his Telegram account “five more rocket attacks (…) there is no exact information yet, but there were at least five explosions.” In this new raid, according to Sinegubov, in the Slobodsky district “there were two killed and 18 wounded, including two minors.” Bombs also landed on the town of Krasnograd, about 80 kilometers south of Kharkov, killing what is believed to be two people.
Kharkiv has so far managed to avoid falling into the hands of Russian forces, but is suffering from continuous shelling that has left hundreds of casualties and is destroying its buildings and infrastructure. Russian forces are trying to thwart the advance of the Ukrainian army in its efforts to liberate the 30-kilometer territory separating this metropolis from the border with Russia.
Russian forces are also trying to move Ukrainian artillery out of the Kharkiv region to prevent it from attacking the railroad that supplies them, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich, who admitted a few weeks ago. However, the shelling last night and this morning, if the information of the Ukrainian authorities is correct, have little in common with the actions directed against military installations.
Kharkiv, which had a little over 1.4 million inhabitants before the war, is almost entirely Russian-speaking. At the end of February, he was close to being occupied by Moscow troops, but his defenders managed to repel the offensive.
In this diabolical context, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet today in Lviv, in the far west of Ukraine, with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General António Guterres. . Sources close to the Turkish president claim that Erdogan will offer Zelensky a mechanism to resolve the current conflict with Russia through negotiations, which have not yet been successful.
The Turkish Anadolu agency, citing UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarric, spokesman, reports that Zelensky, Erdogan and Guterres will also deal with the export of Ukrainian grain, the serious situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the explosion that killed Ukrainian prisoners of war who were held there in late July. in Olenevka (Donetsk).
On July 22 in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine signed a separate agreement with Turkey and the UN to unblock the Black Sea ports. Under its terms, Russia will not attack ports during grain shipments, and Ukraine agrees to send cargo ships to avoid minefields. Since the signing of the agreement, about twenty ships with grain have already departed from Ukrainian ports to different countries of the world.
Source: El Correo
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