Russia has bombed a hospital in Kharkiv, injuring at least 73 people, while also carrying out several attacks on energy infrastructure across multiple Ukrainian regions.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that “the Russians directly struck a city clinical hospital.
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Seventy-three people were injured, and the cardiology department, where people were receiving treatment, was damaged.
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Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov confirmed on Telegram that the hospital sustained heavy damage in Monday night’s bombardment, with more than 1,000 windows shattered.
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Separately, Ukrainian energy sites were hit, including in Kharkiv, in what President Zelenskyy described as a “complex, massive attack”.
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“The main target was energy – power generation facilities and substations – in the Odesa, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, and Rivne regions,” he said in a post on X.
Zelenskyy added that Russia had launched 289 attack drones overnight, as well as 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles.
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This comes a day after at least 29 people were killed in a Russian strike on an aid distribution centre.
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The Russian Ministry of Defence said it had targeted electricity facilities in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.
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In its statement, it said the sites supplied power to the Ukrainian army and military factories.
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More than 180,000 people were without power in the Zhytomyr region on Tuesday morning after Russian attacks, Governor Vitalii Bunechko said.
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Odesa has implemented scheduled power outages in response to the attacks.
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Meanwhile, two employees at a Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl were injured during a Ukrainian drone attack that caused a fire at the site, according to Governor Mikhail Yevrayev.
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The latest exchange of attacks comes as the United States ramps up efforts to end the war, with a meeting between US, Russian and Ukrainian officials due to take place in Abu Dhabi next week.
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US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said in a post on X late on Monday that the discussions would focus on “post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts, and next steps toward peace”.
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Witkoff added that US negotiators would meet with representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO in Brussels this week.
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He said the talks would focus on security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe’s post-war security architecture and economic opportunities to support Ukraine’s reconstruction.
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This comes as global attention turns to Tuesday’s midterm elections in the US.
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Reporting from Kyiv, Al Jazeera’s Audrey MacAlpine said these were arguably the most important elections in recent years for Ukrainians.
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“Since the Trump administration took office and the House and Senate flipped Republican, there have been no significant military aid packages for Ukraine.
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In comparison, Biden, during the early years of the war, you were looking at $60b in military aid for Ukraine,” MacAlpine said.
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“Europe has largely filled that gap but certainly Ukraine would like to resume that aid from the US.
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That’s been at the top of President Zelenskyy’s agenda for over six months now,” she added.
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