Kharkiv: Russian strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed at least six civilians and wounded more than a dozen, the regional governor said Thursday, one month into Russia’s invasion.
The Russians fired long-range weapons at a Nova Poshta office, near where Kharkiv residents were receiving aid, regional governor Oleg Synyegubov wrote on social media referring to a local postal delivery service.
Preliminary information suggests six civilians were killed and 15 others were injured and hospitalized, he added.
Ukraine’s navy on Thursday reported destroying Russia’s large landing ship, Orsk, near the port city of Berdyansk. A short Facebook statement about the ship was accompanied with photos and videos of fire and thick plumes of smoke in the port. The Russian military has not commented on what happened to the ship.
Speaking on the eve of the NATO summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the alliance to provide effective and unrestricted support to Ukraine, including any weapons the country needs to fend off the Russian invasion.
We ask that the alliance declare that it will fully assist Ukraine to win this war, clear our territory of the invaders and restore peace in Ukraine, he said late Wednesday during his nightly video address to the nation.
Zelensky will speak to the NATO summit by video, the president’s office said.
He appealed to Western countries to stay united in the face what he says are Russia’s efforts to lobby its interests with some partners to bring them over to its side.
We will see who is a friend, who is a partner and who has sold out and betrayed us, he said in an emotional speech.
Together we should not allow Russia to break anyone in NATO, the EU or G-7, to break them and drag them to the side of war.
Zelensky noted that Ukrainian skies are still not closed to Russian aircraft and missiles and that Ukraine hasn’t received the fighter jets or modern air-defense systems it requested. He said Ukraine also needs tanks and anti-ship systems.
It has been a month of defending ourselves from attempts to destroy us, wipe us off the face of the earth, he said.