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Several killed as Russian rockets pound Ukraine’s Kharkiv

/Russian rockets hit Kharkiv while Mariupol is ‘hanging on’ and Russian
troops are reportedly advancing towards Mykolaiv./

A view of a residential building damaged by recent shelling in Kharkiv

A view of a residential building damaged by recent shelling in Kharkiv
[File: Sergey Bobok/AFP]

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At least 11 people have been killed by Russian rocket attacks on the

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according to Ukrainian officials.

Regional administration chief Oleg Synegubov said Russian artillery had

pounded residential districts of the city, even though no Ukrainian army
positions or strategic infrastructure were there. At least 11 people had
been killed, he said on Monday.

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Earlier, Ministry of Interior Affairs adviser Anton Herashchenko’s said

dozens of people were killed in the attacks on the city in Ukraine’s
northeast, near the separatist-held regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, more
than 400km (250 miles) from Kyiv.

“Kharkiv has just been massively fired upon by grads [rockets]. Dozens
of dead and hundreds of wounded,” he wrote in a Facebook post.

There was no immediate comment from Moscow. Al Jazeera was unable to

independently verify the death toll.

Secondary explosions

Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, reporting from the city of Lviv, in western

Ukraine, said the reports of deadly Russian attacks on densely populated
civilian areas were disturbing.

“There are lots of pictures [circulating on social media] showing

explosions and suggestions that Grad rocket fire has been used, others
that bombs have been dropped by the air, and there are lots of [videos
showing] flashes that indicate secondary explosions, and the use of
cluster munitions in amongst all of that,” said Hull.

Elsewhere, there was a relative lull in the capital Kyiv where

supermarkets were reopened and residents allowed out of bomb shelters
and homes for the first time since a curfew was imposed on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the strategic port city of Mariupol was “hanging on”,

according to Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser of Ukraine’s President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Russian news agency Interfax reported that Russian troops advanced from
the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson towards the city of Mykolaiv.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian state communications service said in a post on

Telegram that a missile had hit a residential building in the Ukrainian
city of Chernihiv near the border with Belarus.
Ukraine’s state energy company Energoatom dismissed claims by Russia
that its troops had taken control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power
plant as fake news.

“Currently, all four nuclear power plants are under the control of
Ukraine and are operating normally.”

Details of the military developments could not be independently verified.

Kharkiv resistance

The deaths in Kharkiv came a day after the Ukrainian troops repelled a
significant Russian attack on the city on Sunday.

Videos posted on Ukrainian media and social networks showed Russian

vehicles moving across the city of about 1.4 million people and a light
vehicle burning on the street.

Later on Sunday, the regional governor, Oleh Sinegubov, wrote on

Facebook that the Ukrainian forces regained full control
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over the country’s second-largest city.

“Control over Kharkiv is completely ours! The armed forces, the police,
and the defence forces are working, and the city is being completely
cleansed of the enemy,” he said.

A Russian vehicle is burning in Kharkiv

A Russian armoured personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned
light utility vehicles in Kharkiv [File: Marienko Andrew/AP]

The exact death toll of Ukraine’s Russian invasion is unclear, but the
UN human rights chief said 102 civilians have been killed and hundreds
wounded – warning that figure was likely a vast undercount.

Ukraine’s interior ministry reported 352 civilian deaths, including 14

children, as of Sunday night.

More than 500,000 people have fled the country since the invasion,
another UN official said on Monday – among the millions who have left
their homes.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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