Russia Targets Kharkiv Again as Its Forces Advance in East
- Ukraine’s number two city has seen repeated barrages
- War analysts note Russian advances in Ukraine’s east
Firefighters extinguishing the fire at the site of the drone attack in Kharkiv, on May 4.
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Russia marked Orthodox Easter with a drone attack across much of Ukraine, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv’s forces had shot down a Russian fighter jet and as Kremlin troops pressed in Ukraine’s east.
Kremlin troops launched 24 Shahed-type UAVs over the southern region of Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk in central Ukraine, and the northeastern Kharkiv region overnight.