Russian attacks on Orthodox Easter Sunday kill a woman in Kharkiv

Russian attacks on Orthodox Easter Sunday kill a woman in Kharkiv


A woman’s physique was discovered below the rubble following Russian shelling in Ukraine’s north-eastern metropolis

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The assault on Orthodox Easter Sunday – a day celebrated as Easter in each Russia and Ukraine –  additionally injured 24 individuals in Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis and surrounding areas, regional officers mentioned. 

The Kharkiv and the adjoining Sumy area additionally noticed energy cuts after studies of drone attacks and explosions. 

The largely Russian-speaking metropolis of Kharkiv, simply 40 kilometres from the Russian border has come below growing attacks, with rising fears that it could grow to be the following focus of Russia’s navy marketing campaign.

The prosecutor’s workplace opened a legal case over violation of legal guidelines of struggle.

Russia says it doesn’t goal civilian websites, however attacks have hit house blocks, faculties and medical establishments.

Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app additionally reported the demise of an 88-year-old woman in the shelling of the village of Monachynivka, east of Kharkiv. Her physique was recovered from the rubble of a home. Prosecutors mentioned three individuals have been injured.

Vadim Filashkin, head of the navy administration in the Donetsk area, mentioned two individuals have been killed by shelling in the city of Pokrovsk and two injured in Chasiv Yar, west of the Russian-held city of Bakhmut.