Residential areas are being increasingly targeted across Ukraine by advancing Russian forces. A Ukrainian presidential advisor says this is being done to cause the population to panic.
There has been constant shelling in Ukraine's Mariupol port, and civilian targets in the country's second-largest city continued to be hit, as Russia started day six of its invasion.Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says Russian artillery attacks on Kharkiv civilian population amount to state terror
A Russian-backed separatist leader in eastern Ukraine said the task for the day was to "directly encircle" the city of 150,000 in south-eastern Ukraine.Residential areas are being increasingly targeted across the country, with an advisor to Ukraine's president saying that Russia was deliberately shelling cities to spread panic among Ukrainians.
Images posted online showed the building's facade and interior badly damaged by a powerful explosion that also blew up part of its roof.Regional administration chief Oleh Sinehubov said that least 11 people were killed and scores of others were wounded in overnight shelling of the city.WatchVideo emerges of the city administration building in Kharkiv being hit in an attack as shelling intensifies across Ukraine.
Meanwhile, more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian troops shelled a military base in the town of Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, according to the regional governor.Nearly a week since Moscow unleashed its war on its neighbour, its troops have failed to capture a single major Ukrainian city after running into fierce resistance.
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