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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, September 23, 2024, p. 26
Kharkiv. A Russian attack on residential buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, left 21 people injured on Saturday night, including three children aged between 8 and 17, the regional governor said yesterday.
Local authorities said that bombs of the type “type” were used in the offensive. Kaba converted Soviet weapon that was used for months against targets in the eastern part of the country.
Russia bombed a residential buildingaccused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on social media, while the mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terejov, who went to the affected area, said that There were no soldiers in the building.
Oleksandra Ivanivna, a local resident, said that the offensive was launched when we were sleeping. (The building) just exploded. It’s terrible, it’s in ruins.he told the AFP agency.
The crash shattered the building’s windows and left large holes in the walls; outside, some cars were crushed by falling tree branches, some were already charred.
In another attack, Ukrainian air defense units destroyed 71 of 80 drones launched by Russian forces overnight, the kyiv military aviation agency reported yesterday. Another six Russian drones were lost after being neutralized by Ukrainian electronic warfare, the military agency posted on Telegram.
Russia also launched two guided missiles from occupied parts of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, the air force said, without giving details of the operation.
Meanwhile, Zelensky arrived in the United States yesterday to present to his American counterpart and ally, Joe Biden, the details of his plan of victory to end the Russian invasion. He will also present his proposals to the presidential candidates: the Democrat, Kamala Harris, and the Republican, Donald Trump.
I began my visit to the United States by expressing my gratitude to all the employees of the ammunition plant.he wrote on his X account, after visiting a factory where 155-millimeter artillery shells are produced in Pennsylvania.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has revealed that he is in talks with European partners to obtain fighter jets GripenSwedish made.
