Russian glide bombs strike outskirts of Ukraine’s Kharkiv, injure villagers | ABC News
to the war in Ukraine now and at least seven people have been injured in the country’s Northeast after coming under attack from Russian Glide bombs the weapons hit three residential areas on the outskirts of Ukraine’s second largest city hariv Europe corresponding Katherine D filed this report from hak this is where a powerful Glide bomb hit a small village on the outskirts of hak City it comes after a lullin fighting after Russia’s latest offensive in the Northeast launched in early May and as you can see there’s not much left of the homes that were nearby this is the impact of just one single Glide bomb the residents here quickly reminded of just how close the Russian threat is they’re just 30 km from the border this Village largely home to the elderly we spoke to a woman a little while ago who narrowly escaped there was no alert just explosion like a terrible one that’s it this is how it was the first Glide bomb was heading towards here the first one approached our houses I heard a whistle I looked out the window and saw it it was going downhill right to them in the yard I ducked a fraction of a second and everything is in dust and glass all around this is one of several Glide bombs that were launched from Russian territory today and hit various Targets in hariv City area these Glide bombs are being increasingly used by Russian forces because it allows them to launch them from Russian territory 60 km away far from any sort of Ukrainian threat they’re being used here because of just how close we are to the Russian border but also further to the South we’ve seen attacks in kerson where fighting has intensified a Village there was shelled a 93y old woman was taken away by Rescuers and then we’ve also seen Russian forces Advance on the strategically important town of shaza and they’ve been trying to capture this town for some time now if they manage to do so it will give them an easier route towards more strategic towns like cremor and Sloans for
Russian glide bombs have struck three areas on the outskirts of Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv. At least seven people have been injured as Russian forces encroach on Shazivya in a campaign to capture the strategic towns of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk.
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