Russia bombards Ukraine’s Kharkiv
A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looks at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022.
On the sixth day of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, Kharkiv, the second-largest city, remains under attack. Rocket strikes from the Russian military are hitting the city, including Kharkiv’s central square, a city government building, the city’s opera house and the ballet theater. Also, Belarus has supported the Russian military’s push south to take control of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. They also hosted the first attempt at negotiations between the Russian government and Ukraine this week. Plus, Ukrainians citizens are stockpiling homemade petrol bombs — Molotov cocktails — to defend their streets. We hear the story of one Ukrainian brewery that has chosen to bottle up gasoline instead of beer for ordinary Ukrainians to ignite and hurl in self-defense.
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