Footage of damage in the Kharkiv region released; watch here

The video has come out showing the effects of weighty shelling in the private locale of Saltivka, in Kharkiv.

In a video shared by Bjorn Stritzel, boss reporter for Germany’s Bild paper, rubble is left tossed across the forsaken roads as shelling is heard behind the scenes.

Kharkiv: Russian artillery heavily shelling Saltivka area today. pic.twitter.com/BhAZHxIxzi

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— Björn Stritzel (@bjoernstritzel) April 19, 2022

UA commander in Kharkiv told me the yesterday: “Most important thing we need is heavy artillery and MLRS to defend ourselves”.
Witnessed in Saltivka what he meant, UA can’t properly answer Russian shelling right now. pic.twitter.com/8rue0IxcU0

— Björn Stritzel (@bjoernstritzel) April 19, 2022

Mr. Stritzel said he was told by a Ukrainian authority in Kharkiv the “significant thing” required now was weighty cannons.

Recently, Kharkiv’s territorial lead representative, Oleh Synehubov, said somewhere around three individuals had been killed and 16 injured in the wake of shelling in the district.

The city in upper east Ukraine is among the areas that have looked close to consistent shellfire throughout the span of the conflict.

Moscow has been repositioning its soldiers in the east for a considerable length of time subsequent to withdrawing from the capital Kyiv.

It has now announced the catch of the Donbas to be its fundamental objective, guaranteeing it needs to “free” the area where Russian-supported powers have been battling starting around 2014.