Zelensky called the attack ‘extremely cruel,’ and expressed renewed frustration at not getting enough air defence systems from Ukraine’s Western partners
Firefighters work at compound of a printworks hit by Russian missile strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, on May 23.Russian missiles slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the country and killed at least seven civilians early Thursday, officials said, as Kyiv’s army laboured to hold off an intense cross-border offensive by the Kremlin’s larger and better-equipped forces.
The city of Kharkiv, which is the capital of the region of the same name, lies about 20 kilometres from the Russian border. Moscow’s troops have in recent weeks captured villages in the area as part of a broad push, and analysts say they may be trying to get within artillery range of the city.
Zelensky said the main hotspots in recent fighting have been Kharkiv and the neighbouring Donetsk region, where in February Ukraine’s defenders withdrew from the stronghold of Avdiivka. For the Kremlin, taking control of all of partially occupied Donetsk is a war priority. “The main focus is on the entire border area,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address Wednesday.
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