Kharkiv saw at least 10 deaths and injuries in 35 people on Tuesday in rocket strikes by Russian forces on the centre of Ukraine’s second-largest city. In a social media post, interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said the toll would rise as debris was being cleared.
“The rubble is being cleared and there will be even more victims and wounded,” he said.Ukrain’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian missile had hit central square of the border city, calling it “war crime” and “undisguised terror”.
Stating that defending the capital Kyiv from Moscow was a top priority, Zelenskyy said in a video statement, “The strike against Kharkiv is a war crime. This is state terrorism on the part of Russia,” On the sixth day of Russia’s invasion, “the defence of the capital today is the key priority for the state,” he added.
According to estimates by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, one million were ainternally displaced people in Ukraine.
