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Kharkiv regional police department building.
The second largest city in Ukraine has become the center of Russian attacks.
The center of Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine and located in the east of the country, was attacked by Russian forces around 0610 GMT with missiles once morest several buildings and a university, said the operational center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As indicated in his official Telegram account, the building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the State Unitary Company of the National Police in the Kharkov region and the building of the National University were attacked with missiles.
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At least three people were injured in the attack.
According to the UNIAN agency, the explosions took place in the very center of Kharkov, 1.5 kilometers from Freedom Square, which was bombed the day before.
Previously, the operational center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the overnight landing of Russian airborne troops in Kharkiv, which is still under Ukrainian control, although Russian soldiers seized the train station and the river port, according to the mayor. Igor Kolykhaev.
“A group of Russian paratroopers landed in Kharkov,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces operational center said on its Telegram channel.
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According to what he said, “the occupants attacked the hospital, the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Northern Region” and a battle broke out between the invaders and the Ukrainian defenders.
Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said today on his Telegram account that “Kharkov was constantly under fire from the Russians.”
“All attacks were repulsed, the enemy suffered significant losses, including more than 40 units of equipment, positions were held,” he said.
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He noted that at night Su-25 planes bombed Chuguev, in the Kharkov region, and in Kharkov itself.
“The fires due to the air raid are still being extinguished, shells are detonated,” the head of the Kharkov regional state administration, Oleg Sinegubov, was quoted by Gershchenko as saying.
On Tuesday, one of the attacks was once morest the headquarters of the regional administration, in which at least 7 people were killed and 24 others were injured.
The second bombing was recorded in a residential building, according to the State Emergency Service, and caused 8 deaths and 6 injuries.
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