Russian bombing of Kharkiv kills at least 3
Sep 25, 2024
Kiev [Ukraine] / Washington [US], September 25: Russian glide bombs killed three people and injured at least 31 others in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials reported on Tuesday.
"The targets of Russian bombs are an apartment building, a bread factory, a stadium," President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram, noting that these are places where ordinary people carry out their lives.
According to the authorities, a gliding bomb hit a high-rise building directly. Earlier Mayor Ihor Terekhov had written on Telegram about bomb strikes in four districts with two damaged high-rise buildings.
Meanwhile on the diplomatic front, Ukraine has rejected any idea of accepting a partial occupation by Russia as part of a peace compromise.
The Foreign Ministry in Kiev said Russia's complete withdrawal from Ukraine and its internationally recognized borders is "one of the mandatory points of the peace plan formulated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky." That plan, according to the head of Zelensky's office, includes an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO.Zelensky is expected to present his plan to US President Joe Biden in Washington on Thursday.
Russia occupies around a fifth of Ukraine after over two and a half years of war as well as the Crimean Peninsula.
Biden, speaking at the UN, also said the international community had to keep supporting Ukraine following Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion. "He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free. He set out to weaken NATO, but NATO is bigger, stronger, more united than ever before," Biden said.
Source: Qatar Tribune
