Violent missile attack on the administration building in Kharkiv – VG

According to the Ukrainian authorities, six people, including a child, were injured after a missile attack on an administrative building in Kharkiv. Ukraine’s president describes the attack as a war crime.

A video posted on Twitter by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry shows surveillance footage of the building of the regional administration in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, which was hit by a missile Tuesday morning after 08.00.

– This is definitely a war crime. A peaceful city, with peaceful residential areas, without military objectives. Dozens of eyewitnesses have proven that this is not a lonely attack, but a deliberate attack on people, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a letter published on Facebook Tuesday morning.

Ukrainian security authorities wrote on Twitter that six people were wounded in the attack, including a child. No deaths have been reported so far.

New York Times journalist Michael Schwertz also shared the video, writing that Ukraine’s Interior Ministry confirmed the attack Tuesday morning at 08, right after the local curfew was lifted.

You’ve never seen such devastation

Nine people were killed and 37 wounded on Monday afternoon after artillery shelling hit a residential area northeast of Kharkiv.

Four people came out of a shelter to fetch water when they died. A family, two adults and three children were burned alive in a car. Terekhov says it’s really awful video messagewhich was reproduced by Ukrainian edition of the BBC.

The mayor says the city has never seen such destruction in recent history.

The attack was republished in several photos and videos circulating on social media. You see on these multiple explosions that crashed over apartment buildings – on the same day as a delegation from Russia and Ukraine met for talks.

Video has been verified by Bellingcats management An organization that uses open sources to document incidents in conflict areas.

AFP took pictures of a destroyed school (see below) which, according to local residents, caught fire after the bombing.

according to Aftenposten It is possible that “Grad” missiles were used in the attack on the residential area. The newspaper wrote that these are low-accuracy missiles fired continuously from mobile launch ramps carrying 40 missiles.

Russia is accused of war crimes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia carried out 56 missile attacks and launched 113 cruise missiles in the past five days.

In a video posted to Facebook late Monday night, he accuses Russia of war crimes and says they should be brought before an international court.

The West also called for studying the imposition of a no-fly zone for Russian missiles, planes and helicopters over Ukraine in response to the attack. Russia is accused of war crimes

No one in the world will forgive you for killing the peaceful Ukrainian people. This is Ukraine. This is Europe. This is 2022. Evil armed with missiles, bombs and artillery must stop now, says the president.

And the International Criminal Court announced earlier Monday that it had done so An investigation into the situation in Ukraine has been opened.

For its part, Russia claims that reports of the bombing of civilian targets are unreliable

– We do not target civilians in Ukraine. These reports must be verified about the bombings in Kharkiv and the explosions in Kyiv. Russia says the explosions in Kyiv are not true UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia to VG.

Biggest explosion in Kyiv

At the same time it appears New satellite images From Maxar, which published on Tuesday night in Norwegian time, what would be a nearly 64-kilometer-long Russian column at Hostomil Airport, less than 40 kilometers from central Kyiv.

The column along the eastern side of the airport will contain hundreds of armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and support vehicles heading south toward Kyiv, according to Maksar.

– It is clear that they are preparing for a major penetration attack. Kyiv has identified itself as the most important target on Earth for Russian operations, Lieutenant Colonel Bali Yedestibo told VG on Sunday, after similar satellite images were released.

There were no reports of explosions from the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday night until Tuesday, but during Monday there were reports of a large explosion in the Poznyaki district of Kyiv, according to the BBC.

The plane alarm went off first just before 6 p.m., and again just after 7 p.m. on Monday night Norwegian time, and it must have.