Several dead in shelling of Kharkiv
At least six people have apparently been killed in a Russian attack on Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv.
Today UN Secretary-General Guterres is meeting with Turkish President Erdogan in the west of the country.
At least six people have been killed in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv. According to the authorities, 16 other people were injured, as the governor of the region, Oleg Sinegubov, announced in the messenger service Telegram. After the attack, a large fire broke out in a residential building.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram that a residential building was “completely destroyed” in the attack. It is a “shameful and cynical attack on civilians” that is “completely unjustified” and shows the “powerlessness of the aggressor”.
Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, is just 40 kilometers from the Russian border and has been bombed regularly since Russia’s war of aggression began in late February. However, the Russian troops failed to capture the city. According to the authorities, hundreds of civilians have been killed in the Kharkiv region since the beginning of the war. Russian forces are currently concentrating their offensive on eastern and southern Ukraine.
UN Secretary-General meets Zelenskyy and Erdogan
The attack came a day before UN Secretary-General António Guterres met Zelenskyy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv today. According to the UN, the main focus is on the implementation of an agreement on Ukrainian grain exports. Because of the Russian war of aggression, all of Ukraine’s grain exports from its Black Sea ports were blocked for months, contributing to a global food crisis.
Then in July, Russia and Ukraine signed a UN-Turkey-brokered deal to break the blockade. Among other things, they committed to creating safe corridors for cargo ships on the Black Sea. The first ship loaded with grain since the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the end of February left Ukraine on August 1. Guterres plans to visit the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa on Friday and Turkey on Saturday.
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