More deadly shelling hits Kharkiv as Ukraine and Russia trade cross-border strikes

launched drone and missile strikes on cities either side of their shared border on Wednesday, as Moscow repeated unsubstantiated claims that Kyiv and the West were behind the massacre perpetrated at a concert hall in the city at the weekend.

Two people were also killed in artillery and drone strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian cities of Nikopol and Kherson, as Dmytro Kuleba, the country’s foreign minister, reiterated a call for western powers to deliver more air defence systems.

The strike came amid an intense wave of missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which crippled 50 per cent of the production capacity of the country’s main power firm, Dtek, put the country’s biggest hydroelectric power plant out of action and caused long blackouts in many cities, including Kharkiv.

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