Three dead in new shelling of Kharkiv: governor

At least three humans have been killed and 21 have been injured in new Russian shelling on Ukraine’s 2d town of Kharkiv Tuesday, the neighborhood government stated.

The assertion got here a day after strikes at the metropolis, which lies near the Russian border, killed 5 people.

“At the modern time in Kharkiv, 3 people have unluckily died,” local governor Oleg Sinegubov stated on Telegram.

He also told Ukraine’s Hromadske television that 21 people were injured in the strikes Tuesday in four different residential areas.

“The intensity of the shelling of Kharkiv has increased,” Sinegubov said, asking residents to take shelter and not go outside.

The governor of the eastern Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said later on Tuesday that three civilians were killed by Russian shelling: one in Kramatorsk, one in Avdiivka and the third in Blagodatnoye.

“Five civilians were also wounded, including a child,” Kyrylenko said on Telegram.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2d town that had nearly 1.5 million inhabitants before Russia invaded in past due February, noticed heavy fighting at the start of Moscow’s offensive but always remained under Ukrainian manipulation.

Ukraine fears the city could be a chief goal in a brand new Russian offensive, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said had all started Monday.