Kharkiv - The African Mirror

Nov

2023

Russia’s biggest drone strike in weeks hits Ukrainian infrastructure

RUSSIA launched a massive drone attack early, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, officials said. The air force said it shot down 24 "Shahed" drones out of 40 launched by Russia, the biggest drone attack in weeks to target Kharkiv in the northeast, Odesa and Kherson in the south and the region of Lviv on Ukraine's border with Poland in the west. One X-59 missile was also shot down, the Air Force said. "We realize that as winter approaches, Russian terrorists will try to…

Jul

2022

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Ukraine apartment block toll rises as Zelenskiy laments Russian firepower advantage

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ANNA VOITENKO and TOM BALMFORTH RESCUE workers pulled some survivors from an apartment block destroyed by a Russian missile strike that killed 30 people in eastern Ukraine, while Russian shelling killed at least three in the second-largest city of Kharkiv. The civilian deaths hammered home the human cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, now in its fifth month, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy lamented Russia's "big advantage" in artillery despite Western offers of help. In the city of Chasiv Yar, rescuers made voice contact with two people in the wreckage of the five-storey apartment building demolished by a rocket on…

Apr

2022

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In tears at border, Ukrainians say they held on until they had to flee

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JOANNA PLUCINSKA and ANNA VOITENKO VALERY Petrovich Sorokin, 66, didn't want to leave his home outside of Kharkiv. He suffers from arthritis and struggles to move. But, a month into the war, as Russian bombs fell around him, his family told him he had to go to Poland with them. "There are planes all the time and the sound of bombing all the time, it's very loud," he told Reuters tearfully as his family huddled under green tents set up to protect refugees from the rain as they waited at the Shehyni border crossing in Ukraine. "They did it, they…

Mar

2022

By The African Mirror

Russia warns Kyiv residents to flee as stalled invaders shift to bombarding cities

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ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC RUSSIA warned Kyiv residents to flee their homes and rained rockets on the city of Kharkiv as Russian commanders intensified their bombardment of Ukrainian urban areas in a shift of tactics after their six-day assault stalled. A U.S. official said a miles-long armoured column bearing down on the capital Kyiv had not made any advances in the past 24 hours, frozen in place by logistics problems, short on fuel and food, and perhaps pausing to reassess tactics. Russia's defence ministry said its forces would strike targets in Kyiv used by Ukraine's security service and also communications sites. It…