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At slightest 4 radical person been killed successful the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv aft a bid of Russian attacks.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described 1 of the attacks arsenic a "savage killing", saying dozens of radical had been injured.
It comes aft Kyiv embarrassed Moscow erstwhile it launched a daring drone raid heavy wrong Russia last weekend, destroying dozens of bombers.
Meanwhile, attempted US-led bid talks betwixt the 2 look to beryllium floundering.
During the attacks connected Saturday, Kharkiv politician Ihor Terekhov said: "Kharkiv is presently experiencing the astir almighty onslaught successful the full clip of the full-scale war."
The archetypal question of the Russian onslaught was a ample drone-and-missile onslaught successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday morning.
Nightly attacks from Moscow person go a regular portion of the conflict.
At slightest 3 radical died and 21 others were injured. There are reports that immoderate radical stay trapped underneath the rubble.
Then, successful the afternoon, Russia dropped aerial bombs connected the metropolis centre, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and wounding more.
Ukraine and Russia besides accused 1 different of trying to sabotage a planned captive exchange.
Residents reckon with Russian strikes
As exigency workers fought fires astatine the onslaught sites successful Kharkiv, residents had to woody with the fallout of strikes that could person claimed their lives.
Alina Belous tried to extinguish flames with buckets of h2o to rescue a young miss trapped wrong a burning building, arsenic she called retired for help.
"We were trying to enactment it retired ourselves with our buckets, unneurotic with our neighbours," she said.
"Then the rescuers arrived and started helping america enactment retired the fire, but determination was fume and they disquieted that we couldn't enactment there.
"When the ceiling started falling off, they took america out."
Vadym Ihnachenko said helium initially thought it was a neighbouring gathering going up successful flames - not his own.
He was forced to fly aft seeing fume coming from his building's roof.
Diplomatic efforts stall
Several different areas successful Ukraine were besides hit, including the regions of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and the metropolis of Ternopil, Ukrainian overseas curate Andriy Sybiha said.
Russia acknowledged the attacks, but not the deaths, saying it had targeted subject sites, portion pictures amusement flat blocks connected fire.
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The determination governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said children were among those injured successful the archetypal attack.
While a US-led diplomatic propulsion for bid has led to 2 rounds of nonstop bid talks betwixt delegations from Russia and Ukraine, they delivered nary important breakthroughs.
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Later connected Saturday, Russia and Ukraine besides accused each different of endangering plans to swap 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed successful action.
This had been agreed during bid talks successful Istanbul, Turkey, connected Monday.
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