Ukrainian officials said the deadly strikes were a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities.
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Hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Washington for high-stakes meetings to discuss a possible path to peace with Moscow, Russian attacks on large Ukrainian cities and villages near the front killed 10 people and injured dozens, the local authorities said....
Videos of the aftermath of a strike in Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, released by local authorities show parts of a residential building’s roof and upper floors gutted, as firefighters on a ladder spray water to try to extinguish flames. Seven people were killed in the attack, including two children, and some 20 people were also injured, the authorities said....
Three people were killed in a separate attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine, and nearly 20 people injured, officials said. In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the main theater of the battlefield today, Russian shelling killed four people, according to regional prosecutors. There was no immediate public comment from Russian authorities....
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, wrote on social media that the strike on the residential building was “deliberate.”
...“Five enemy ‘Shaheds’ approached it from different directions and targeted people who were peacefully sleeping at five in the morning,” Mr. Terekhov said, referring to armed drones. His statement could not be independently verified....
