Russian troops bombed a residential area in Ukraine’s second-largest city with rockets on Monday, killing at least nine people, and several large explosions were heard in the center of the capital Kiev as talks between deputies on both sides in White Russia came to an end. close to.
The attack and explosions were launched as Russia becomes increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, especially Western countries, which have imposed a series of sanctions on the country since it launched its invasion of Ukraine last week.
The bombing in the city of Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Monday nine civilians were killed, including three children, and 37 others were injured. DailyExpertNews is contacting Russian authorities for comment on the attack.
According to social media videos located by DailyExpertNews, multiple rockets were seen exploding close together in a residential area of the Saltivka neighborhood, near a supermarket in the northeast of the city, often targeted by the Russian military.
Ukraine’s Attorney General Iryna Venediktova described the situation in Kharkiv as “hell” and shared a video on Facebook of a rocket hitting a kitchen window and ripping off the leg of a woman, who later died in hospital, she said.
When the talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials ended Early Monday morning, DailyExpertNews reporters in Kiev heard several large explosions followed by sirens going through the city.
Both sides discussed a possible “ceasefire and the end of combat actions on the territory of Ukraine,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhaylo Podolyak told reporters.
Without going into detail, Podolyak said both sides would return to their capitals for consultations on whether or not to implement a number of “decisions.”
“The parties discussed holding a new round of negotiations in which these decisions can develop,” he said.
Ukraine had previously demanded an “immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops,” President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said earlier Monday.
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