Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing civilians in Kharkiv.. Moscow denies

Ukrainian prosecutors said they were investigating a Russian air strike on a residential area in Kharkiv As a potential war crime. The raid caused the injury of six civilians, including a 13-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy.

Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians, but thousands have been killed and wounded since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in February 2022.

In the city of Vovchansk in the northeast of the country, which is only five kilometers from the Russian border, prosecutors said Russian bombing It killed a 60-year-old woman and injured three other civilians.

They added that a 59-year-old man was also injured in the town of Ukrainsky.

And across the border in the Russian Belgorod region, she said Russian Ministry of Defence Its forces shot down a Tochka-U missile launched by Ukraine. Russia says a similar missile caused the collapse of an apartment building in Belgorod last week, killing at least 15 people.

This he said Zelensky In his evening video speech, he said that Ukrainian forces have become in a stronger position, especially in the Kharkiv region.

He added: “The occupier is losing infantry soldiers and equipment, which is a tangible loss, even though he was counting on a rapid advance on our land, as happened in 2022.”

Zelensky stated that Ukrainian forces A Russian attack was repelled around the city of Chasev Yar in the Donetsk region in the east of the country, and the city is seen as a main target of the Russian campaign.

He continued: “Our soldiers destroyed more than 20 units of occupation armor.”

Reuters was unable to verify accounts related to the battlefield from independent sources.

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