A Russian guided bomb attack on Saturday killed two people and injured 10 more including children in a village in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the governor said. Governor Oleh Synehubov said the Russian strike hit the village of Cherkaska Lozova, damaging a residential building. A Russian attack on the city of Kharkiv, the regional centre, killed seven people on Friday, local authorities said. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.
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Summary:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky increased pressure on the United States to let Kyiv strike deeper into Russian territory after his representatives met senior US officials in Washington on Saturday.
- A Russian guided bomb attack on Saturday killed two people and injured 10 more including children in a village in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the governor said.
- Ukraine was fully within its rights to launch its surprise offensive into Russia's Kursk border region as an act of self-defence, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told German newspaper Die Welt.
Yesterday's key developments:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed the country’s air force chief, a day after Kyiv said a US-made F-16 fighter jet had crashed in combat, killing the pilot.
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A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a playground, killing six people and injuring at least 55 more, local authorities said.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
