Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that 31 people had been killed and nine saved from the rubble in Chasiv Yar, after strikes hit a residential block on Saturday (July 9).
Speaking during his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, had also come under attack by Russian artillery.
Kharkiv, in the northeast close to the Russian border but outside the Donbas, suffered heavy bombardment in the first few months of the war followed by a period of relative calm that has been shattered by renewed shelling in recent weeks.
Moscow denies targeting civilians but many Ukrainian cities, towns and villages have been left in ruins. Since the Feb. 24 invasion, attacks on a theatre, shopping centre and railway station have caused many civilian deaths.
Zelenskiy said Russia had carried out 34 air strikes since Saturday.
