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Fighting got underway Sunday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, after Russian forces stormed in from the outskirts, according to reports.
The Kharkiv offensive combined with overnight strikes in Kyiv and other parts of the country to broaden the Russian invasion that began Thursday, the reports said.
Kharkiv, located about 480 miles east of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, lies just a little more than 12 miles from the Russian border.
The city’s population is about 1.4 million, or about half the size of Kyiv, the BBC reported.
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Russian troops began approaching Kharkiv on Thursday, when the invasion into Ukraine got underway, but remained outside the city until Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
A view of a residential building damaged by recent shelling in Kharkiv on Feb. 26, 2022.
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Oleh Sinehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, said Ukrainian fighters were engaged against Russians inside the city, and civilians were being asked to stay in their homes, the AP reported.
Videos posted on social media showed Russian military vehicles on the streets of Kharkiv and showed at least one residential building heavily damaged by shelling.
An elderly woman was killed at the site but about 60 other residents were said to be unharmed after taking refuge in the basement, the BBC reported.
Ukrainian forces destroy Russian armored vehicle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
(Reuters)
Earlier, the Ukraine government’s Telegram channel reported that Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv early Sunday.
The developments in Kharkiv were part of actions overnight and into Sunday that appeared to be taking the war into a new phase, the AP reported. In the Kyiv area, many of the latest strikes also targeted fuel facilities, according to the news service.
On Friday, a Russian attack in Okhtyrka killed at least six Ukrainian civilians,…
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