A shell crater is seen in the street during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port of Mariupol, Ukraine March 27, 2022.A shell crater is seen in the street during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port of Mariupol, Ukraine March 27, 2022.
Russia has carried out a missile strike on a plant in the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv where armoured vehicles for Ukraine’s military are repaired, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.Regional governor Oleh Synehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said on Sunday that Russia had hit the building of a “civilian enterprise” in Kharkiv with four S300 missiles. The Kharkiv regional administration did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, had a population of more than 1.4 million before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Parts of the city lie less than 20 miles from the Russian border.