KHARKIV has been hit with a missile barrage after Vladimir Putin launched a hellish new onslaught in the Ukrainian city just days ago.
The governor urged residents to take cover in air raid shelters during the longest alert since the war began as Vlad’s army pelted civilians with rockets.
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Putin’s armies have pelted villages and towns in Kharkiv in recent days
A journalist on the ground said he had “lost count of the number of explosions”.
He said at least a dozen or more had hit in just an hour on Thursday evening.
The air raid alert lasted for more than 16 and a half hours, making it the longest in Ukraine for over two years.
Mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, said the Osnovyanskyi district specifically was struck sparking a fire.
Osnovyanskyi covers the centre of Kharkiv and a southern stretch.
Putin’s brutal armies pummelled over 30 villages and towns in the region after moving into the northeastern front on Friday.
Military experts told The Sun that the new move in northern Ukraine is designed to distract Kyiv’s forces so Putin can seize the Donbas.
Ukrainian president Zelensky had been in Kharkiv just hours earlier on Thursday to try and boost morale.
Meanwhile Chinese despot Xi Jinping was rubbing shoulders with Mad Vlad as the two dictators shored up a long-standing anti Western alliance.
Moscow’s brutalist forces have managed to push several kilometres into the north of Kharkiv in recent days.
Osnovyanskyi governor Oleh Synehubov said at least five Russian drones specifically hit his area – marking a southern shift for Russian targets.
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