
Ukrainian authorities have said that Russia has launched an intensive shelling campaign on Kharkiv city center that hit a nursery school and killed four people.
A first piece of footage, obtained from the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine, on Tuesday, August 30, shows firefighters and rescue workers working at the scene of damaged residential buildings in the city center. A group of buildings can be seen having been particularly badly hit, with smoke emanating from their destroyed roofs. Firefighters can be seen hosing down smoldering wooden beams as the footage ends.