The bombings are multiplying in Kharkiv and a long column of tanks goes to Kiev, even if the Russians face a strong Ukrainian resistance.
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Despite a calm calm around the capital, Kiev, the evolution of the military situation was marked, Monday, February 28, by Russian bombing of an unprecedented intensity in the second city of the country, Kharkiv, located at 30 kilometers from the border with Russia. According to the regional authorities, at least eleven civilians were killed, whereas, at the same time, a first cycle of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, near the Belarusian border.
A Russian missile struck the symbolic place of freedom, where the yellow and blue tent of Euromaidan activists is installed, of the name of the 2014 proeuropean revolution, at the foot of the administrative buildings. According to the journalist and Ukrainian activist volodymyr Tchistiline, present on site, “the tent was strongly damaged” but there would be no victim.
“People with peaceful trades went to fight”
Residential neighborhoods have also been affected. The use of cluster munitions, particularly devastating in inhabited areas, has been documented several times. “An international tribunal will certainly judge this crime. It is a violation of all conventions, denounced the Ukrainian president, Volodyymr Zelensky. Nobody in the world will forgive you to have killed peaceful Ukrainians.” In five days, 56 strikes Missiles and 113 cruise missiles were launched on Ukraine, according to the Head of State. “That’s what” fraternal friendship “looks like”, “he believes, with reference to Vladimir Putin’s speech, that Russian and Ukrainians form” one people “.
“The bombardment of today has shown that it is not a military operation, but a war to destroy the Ukrainian people” has reborn the mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov. Russia says he wants to spare civilians. There is yet no military facility in Kharkiv, according to the authorities. “The Russians strike very strong and more and more indiscriminate”, has noted a western military source.
Stople 1.4 million majority inhabitants Russophones, Kharkiv has been opposing since the beginning of the offensive a resistance to which Russian soldiers did not expect. In 2014, the city took away the same fate as the regions of Donetsk and Louhansk, fallen into the hands of the Prorussian separatists, supported by Moscow. But as elsewhere in Ukraine, the eight years of war in the Donbass have forged a sense of national belonging that today pushes many of its inhabitants to fiercely defend the independence of Ukraine.
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