The Chief of the Kharkiv Regional Military Command, Oleh Synyehubov, issued a warning on Telegram saying that “Russian occupiers opened fire, reportedly with multiple rocket launchers.” “Attention! Residents of Kharkiv and Kharkiv Region, please do not stay outdoors unless absolutely necessary. It is extremely dangerous. All services are responding quickly and working on the scene,” Synyehubov said. A view of a school in Kharkiv destroyed by a Russian missile on July 10, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Ukraine’s armed forces have already reported on Monday morning that Russian missile strikes targeted Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with a school among the buildings destroyed. — Holly Elliott
The death toll from the Russian rocket attack on an apartment building rises to 18
The death toll from a Russian rocket attack that hit a five-story apartment building in the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, rose to 18 on Monday. Search and rescue teams are still struggling to reach survivors in the rubble, emergency services said. Images released on Sunday showed teams using their hands to try to dislodge the rubble and reach people trapped in the rubble of the building. Rescuers clear the scene after a five-story residential building was hit in Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut region, eastern Ukraine, on July 10, 2022. Miguel Medina | Afp | Getty Images “Rescuers recovered a body of another victim from the rubble of a 5-story apartment building destroyed in the rocket attack in the city of Chasiv Yar,” the Facebook report said on Monday. “A total of 18 civilians were found dead. Six civilians were rescued from under the rubble. A total of 138 tons of damaged structures were dismantled. Rescue operations are ongoing.” A further update said two more men had been rescued from the rubble as part of the ongoing rescue operation. — Holly Elliott
Russia is launching a wave of attacks in eastern Ukraine
Russian forces have launched a wave of attacks on several cities in the east of the country and appear to be preparing to intensify their attacks, Ukraine’s general staff said on Monday. Russian forces have particularly stepped up their attacks around Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv with artillery, rocket launchers and tanks deployed in the city and surrounding areas, the spokesman for the general staff of its armed forces said on Facebook on Monday. Ukrainian Oleksandr Shtupun. A view of a school in Kharkiv destroyed by a Russian missile on July 10, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Shtupun said that in the direction of Donetsk, “there are signs of enemy units preparing to intensify combat operations in the directions of Kramatorsk and Bakhmut” and that in the area of Sloviansk — a city of the new front line in Donetsk — several settlements in the north and northwest they had been bombarded with barrel and jet artillery. The nearby city of Kramatorsk to the south had seen no active operations, Shtupun said, but towns between Sloviansk and Severodonetsk – the border region between Russian-held Luhansk and Donetsk – have been bombarded with barrel artillery, Shtupun said. —Holly Elliott
Lemaire: The reduction of natural gas from Russia to Europe is one of the key scenarios
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, speaking Sunday to CNBC’s Charlotte Reed at the Rencontres Economiques event in Aix-en-Provence, discusses the possibility of Russia shutting off gas taps to Europe. “I think this is one of the main scenarios and we have to be prepared for all options. This is the responsibility of all politicians to take into account the geopolitical situation,” he said. —Matt Clints
In pictures: Rescuers search for victims and survivors of an attack on an apartment building
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article contains an image of search and rescue teams removing human remains from the Chasiv Yar apartment building hit by Russian forces. Firefighters and members search for survivors after Russian missiles hit the apartment building in Chasiv Yar. Miguel Medina | Afp | Getty Images Search and rescue operations continue in Chasiv Yar to find victims and survivors of a Russian missile attack on an apartment building. The city is located southeast of Kramatorsk in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. At least 15 people were killed in the attack and the death toll is likely to rise, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday evening. Firefighters and members of a rescue team carry a body after a building was partially destroyed after shelling, in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, on July 10, 2022. Miguel Medina | Afp | Getty Images Several dozen people are believed to be trapped under the rubble and residents have been displaced after losing their homes. Ukrainians salvage what belongings they can after an airstrike on their apartment building in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Russia has repeatedly stated that it does not target civilians despite the numerous cases where civilian infrastructure has been damaged during the war. A woman stands in her heavily damaged apartment after a Russian missile hit her apartment building in Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut region in eastern Ukraine. Miguel Medina | Afp | Getty Images
Russia is a ‘terrorist state’, says Zelensky after apartment block attack
Firefighters and members of a rescue team clear the scene after a building was partially destroyed following shelling, in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, on July 10, 2022. Miguel Medina | Afp | Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll was likely to rise after the Russian attack on an apartment building in Donetsk over the weekend. “I have been receiving reports all day today from the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region,” Zelensky said in his midnight speech last night. “There are 15 names on the list of dead and, unfortunately, it is not the final number.” “It was a missile strike. And all those who give orders for such strikes, all those who carry them out in our ordinary cities, in populated areas, kill absolutely deliberately,” the president added. Rescuers clear the scene after a building was partially destroyed by shelling in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, July 10, 2022. The building was hit by a Russian Hurricane missile, Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region that the Russian military is seeking to conquer , said on July 10, 2022 on Telegram. Anatoly Stepanov | Afp | Getty Images Zelensky said Ukraine would seek to punish those responsible for the attack and anyone else involved in the invasion of Ukraine. “Since the beginning of this invasion, Ukrainian law enforcement officers have been doing everything necessary to record the crimes of the occupiers and collect evidence,” he said, adding that Russia should be considered a terrorist state: “Russian terror has long crossed the line beyond which it has become apparent to many in the civilized world that it is a matter of global security to punish Russia, a terrorist state, for all that it has done against Ukraine and international legal order”. Russia has repeatedly stated that it does not target civilians despite the numerous cases where civilian infrastructure has been damaged during the war. — Holly Elliott
Russia is not on an “operational pause,” says Zelensky
On Ukraine’s side, Russia is not taking an “operational pause” from the fierce fighting in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, the country’s president said Sunday night. “Last week, there was a lot of talk about the supposed ‘operational pause’ in the actions of the occupiers in Donbass and other parts of Ukraine,” Zelensky said in his nightly speech. “Thirty-four airstrikes by Russian aircraft the previous day are a response to all those who invented this ‘pause’. Zelensky’s comments come after military analysts said Russia appeared to have made little progress in the Donbass last week. capturing the entire region is one of Russia’s stated war goals. Analysts say Russian forces are likely to regroup after heavy fighting to take Luhansk, an area that makes up half of Donbas, along with Donetsk, which Russian forces are now trying to advance. However, there was no pause for Ukraine, Zelensky said, noting that “the Ukrainian army is holding, firmly holding and repelling attacks in various directions.” “But, of course, much more needs to be done before the Russian losses become such that there will actually be a pause. Moreover, the pause is not before new attacks by the invaders, but before their escape from our Ukrainian homeland. And I am grateful to all of our fighters who are making sure that this time is coming.” — Holly Elliott
At least 15 dead after a Russian attack on an apartment building in Donetsk
At least 15 people were killed and dozens are still trapped after Russian missiles hit a five-story apartment building in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Saturday, causing the building to collapse. Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kirilenko told Telegram that at least 34 people may be trapped under the rubble of the high-rise building in Chasiv Yar, which was hit by Russian missiles late Saturday. He said yesterday that five people had been rescued with emergency services communicating with others trapped under the rubble. According to various estimates, there may be another 24 people trapped in the rubble of the building, including a 9-year-old child, Kyrylenko said. “Rescuers of the State Emergency Service dismantled approximately 99 tons of damaged elements of the building. The rescue operation is underway,” he commented. Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s president’s chief of staff, said on Twitter that Russia “should be on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.”
