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Deadly Strikes On Kharkiv As Biden Lets Ukraine Use US Arms Inside Russia

A firefighter sprays water in a Kharkiv hardware store destroyed by a Russian strike earlier in the week. A fresh attack killed three more in the Ukrainian city overnight (Credit: AFP)

Russian strikes killed three people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the regional governor said early Friday, hours after the United States authorised Kyiv to use American weapons to hit targets inside Russia in defence of the embattled region.

With Russia having retaken the battlefield initiative in recent months, Ukraine had doubled down on calls to permit it to use longer-range US weapons to attack Russian territory -- something Washington had resisted over fears it could drag NATO into direct conflict with Moscow.

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