It's a bloody Saturday for the population of Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, where pressure on the Russian army's front has been intensifying for weeks. In the afternoon, a shopping center in the Ukrainian city was hit by bombing, which was quickly engulfed in flames. A long column of black smoke remained visible for a long time and from a distance, while hundreds of rescuers were called to the scene. In addition to the firefighters, there were also 400 men and women from the police to try to quickly secure the scene and try to save as many people as possible. The megastore in question is located in a department store area, next to a parking lot, and hundreds of citizens frequent it during the weekend. “This attack on Kharkiv is another manifestation of Russian madness, there is no other way to express it. Only madmen like Putin are capable of killing and terrorizing people in such a cowardly manner,” declared Ukrainian President Zelensky, offering his condolences to the relatives of the victims. After hours of research, the provisional toll is 6 dead. , 40 injured and 16 missing According to regional governor Oleg Synegoubov, the Russian attack was carried out using two guided aerial bombs “Putin can spread any lie, but we see his actions, they are. barbaric war crimes against civilians,” commented Kiev Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, “a brutal raid to cause the greatest number of victims Putin cannot occupy Kharkiv, so he is trying to eliminate it. ” The Ukrainian government reiterates that to block these attacks, Western allies must quickly provide technologies and defense systems to protect the population.
The Starlink boycott
The Russian army continues to apply pressure in this region to push kyiv to strengthen this fortress by depriving Donbass, also taking advantage of the delay in the delivery of military aid promised by the United States and other countries. To the south, unsurprisingly, the Russians continued their advance and claimed the conquest of another village. At this point, Moscow would also leverage cutting-edge technology to sabotage the Ukrainian military's use of Starlink. According to New York Times, the satellite system made available by Elon Musk to collect information and carry out drone attacks has recently suffered heavy slowdowns, due to a greater capacity for interference from the invasion forces. “We are losing the electronic battle,” said Ajax, code name for the deputy commander of the 92nd Achilles Attack Drone Battalion, who described in an interview the challenges his troops faced after the outage of Starlink connectivity: “A day before the attacks, it I just stopped, it got super, super slow.
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