Ukraine war briefing: Kharkiv residents suffer as Russia intensifies attacks

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Ukraine’s second-largest city has suffered ‘extensive damage’ to civilian infrastructure and a sharp increase in casualties; woman, 98, walks out of besieged city on her own. What we know on day 798

on Tuesday, the regional governor said. Russian bombardment of Kharkiv, which lies near the Russian border and is Ukraine’s second-largest city, has intensified in recent weeks. Ukraine’s railway company said the 24-year-old victim was one of its employees. “This is another targeted attack on civilian railway infrastructure by the enemy,” the company, Ukrzaliznytsia, said in a statement., north-east Ukraine, with an increasingly anxious population subjected to regular air raids.

The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said he was encouraging countries with Patriot missile systems to donate them to Ukraine Various European Union countries possess the systems, including Spain, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden.minimum of seven additional Patriot or other high-end air defence systems, a Polish deputy foreign minister, Andrzej Szejna, has told state television. Warsaw had not received any formal request from Ukraine but “when Ukraine turns to Poland with a request, we will act in accordance with Polish and European law”.for this year by 7bn kroner to a total of 22bn kroner .

, a UK parliamentary hearing was told on Tuesday. “These are names that should be being added to the sanctions list and should be drawn to the attention of the international community that dealing with that particular insurance company is going to get you into hot water,” said Tom Keatinge, director of the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Finance and Security, without naming any firms.

 

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