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. 

Photographer: Pavlo Pakhomenko/NurPhoto/Getty Images
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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.