A deadly rocket assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, has triggered widespread alarm about the lengths to which Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to go to win the war
Vladimir Putin has been accused of committing war crimes in Ukraine after the indiscriminate shelling of residential buildings in the country’s second biggest city potentially killed dozens of civilians including three children.
Ukraine’s President says the country’s capital is “constantly in danger” as Russian troops advance slowly on Kyiv. “Buying Russian goods now, is to pay money for murdering people,” Zelensky said in a translated video message. Russian troops fired artillery at Kyiv, Kharkiv and the southern port city of Mariupol overnight while the Ukrainian side shot down Russian military planes around the capital, Arestovych said in a televised briefing.
UK Defence said Russia had failed to gain control of the airspace over Ukraine, prompting a shift to night operations in an attempt to reduce their losses. Few details have been released on the peace discussions, except that a second round could take place “in the near future”. Ukrainian officials said 16 children had been killed in the first four days of fighting, but that number is likely to have risen significantly in the past 24 hours, after the deadliest attacks on civilians since the start of the invasion.
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