Ukrainian city Kharkiv,
has been relentlessly bombarded
by the Russians
Now the neighbourhood is a ghost town. Everywhere you look, deathly black burn marks rise up from the windows where shells hit. There are multi-storey gashes in the sides of the buildings. There are neat circular holes in the roofs where shells punched through but didn't detonate. There are personal possessions strewn over the pathways between the buildings - ejected from the flats above with terrible force. And the shells are still falling.
Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and widely-banned cluster munitions.
This is the city I live in.
Videos shared on social media showed rockets landing in Kharkiv, in what some defence analysts described as typical of a cluster munition strike on a dense urban area.
Russia has previously denied targeting residential areas.
Thourthands of people
have been killed in Russian missile strikes
on Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Today, when I publish this Project 55 Ukrainian civilians
were killed in a Russian missile strike against a grocery store in the Kharkiv region.
It’s one of the deadliest Russian attacks in the war so far.
The death toll could still rise.
