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Explosions and heavy fighting underway in Kharkiv after Russian paratroopers land

Authorities in Kherson deny Russian claims forces have captured first city of invasion, Russian paratroops have landed in Kharkiv, and Joe Biden attacks Putin in his State of the Union address

No employees were injured in the attack

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia for invading Ukraine and demanded that Moscow withdraw its military forces. On the Ukrainian frontlines, Russian paratroopers landed in the second-largest city Kharkiv on Wednesday as troops besieged Kherson in southern Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces struck government buildings, a television tower and Ukraine’s main Holocaust memorial on Tuesday as they targeted residential neighborhoods and assembled a 40-mile-long column of tanks, artillery and other military vehicles outside the capital, Kyiv, in what appeared to foreshadow an imminent assault on the city.

Russia-Ukraine news from March 2: UN General Assembly resolution condemns Russia for the invasion of Ukraine.

“Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine vowed after the bloodshed on the main public square in Kharkiv.

The blast caused a mushroom cloud, which is understood to have struck Chuguev airfield in the Kharkiv region and is similar to those caused by thermobaric explosions which can vaporise human bodies.