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At least five people, including a 14-year-old girl, have been killed in a reported Russian glide bomb attack on a multistorey apartment black in northeast Ukraine.
The daytime attack hit the 12-storey building and the playground in front of it, with multiple cars catching fire. Dozens of people were wounded.
“Occupiers killed a child right on the playground,” local mayor Ihor Terekhov said on the Telegram messenger app.
Graphic footage showed swathes of the building on fire with residents heard screaming.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky reposted a video of the aftermath of the strike, using the incident to reiterate his calls for Kyiv’s Western allies to allow Ukraine to strike deeper into Russian territory.
“The Russian strike on Kharkiv directly on people, on ordinary homes,” he wrote. “This strike was carried out using a Russian guided aerial bomb—a strike that could have been prevented if our Defence Forces had the capability to destroy Russian military aircraft at their bases.
“We need strong decisions from our partners to stop this terror.”
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Syrskyi also said Russian troops had failed in their latest bid to pierce Ukrainian defences in the Pokrovsk area of eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv launched its surprise operation into Kursk in western Russia on 6 August. It has claimed to control about 100 settlements and said it reached up to 35 km (22 miles) deep into the region, but later advances appeared to have stalled.
Syrskyi said on Friday his troops had moved forward again with a renewed effort, gaining 5 square km of Russian territory in the past 24 hours.
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More photos from the Kharkiv attack
Earlier, we reported that at least five people were killed and 47 injured after Russia reportedly fired a glide bomb at an apartment block in northeast Ukraine.
Below, we have some of the latest photos from that attack.
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Photos from the frontline
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Child among dead as Russian glide bomb strikes playground in Kharkiv
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