Russia bombed the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv again on Saturday afternoon. A thirty-year-old woman was killed in the attack, the region’s governor reports. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, more than forty people were also injured.
In the night from Friday to Saturday, three people were killed in a Russian air raid on Kharkiv. The local mayor called it the heaviest attack of the entire war on the eastern Ukrainian city.
According to the governor, the city was hit by glide bombs on Saturday afternoon. Four were dropped towards the center and hit buildings near a children’s playground, among other things.
Zelensky calls the Russian action on X “pure terror” and totally pointless from a military point of view. “Every day we lose people because Russia thinks it can act with impunity.”
The continued bombing of Kharkiv follows attacks on several other Ukrainian cities on the night from Thursday to Friday. At least six people were killed and eighty injured. Russia states that the attacks were a response to a major Ukrainian operation deep inside Russia, in which dozens of Russian bombers were destroyed.
In addition, disagreement arose on Saturday about a possible prisoner exchange between the two countries. Russia states that the exchange should have taken place, while Ukraine says that no concrete date had been agreed. Ukraine accuses Russia of playing a “dirty game” to manipulate the process.