By attacking Kharkiv’s Freedom Square and blowing up a Kyiv TV tower, Russian forces demonstrated they can strike across the country at will.
Russian missile attacks on Tuesday on a television broadcast tower in Kyiv and one of the main government administration buildings in Kharkiv appear to be an adjustment in tactics after limited ground incursions into the cities stalled.in the morning. Seven people died, the Ukraine government said, although the timing, location and visibility of the attack suggested it was designed to demonstrate that Russian forces can strike across the country at will.
For some reason, a 65-kilometre-long convoy of tanks and combat vehicles north of Kyiv had stopped moving on Tuesday, the US official said, and there could be multiple explanations as to why. “The armed forces of Ukraine stopped the enemy’s column,” said Anatolii Fedoruk, the mayor of Bucha, who celebrated the defeat even as he surveyed the destruction.
In southern Ukraine, the Russians captured Kherson, a Black Sea port of 300,000 people north of Crimea,About 400 kilometres east, the Russians have nearly encircled Mariupol, a city of about 450,000 people.
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