The homes of many have been destroyed by the ongoing Russian attacks: according to local authorities, more than 150,000 residents of the second largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are without a roof over their heads after months of Russian attacks.
“Many of them left the city, traveling to western Ukraine or other areas or abroad,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov, 55, said on Wednesday, according to the Unian agency. But many stayed. “Because Kharkov was the student capital of Ukraine before the war, we make the dormitories available to people who have nowhere to live and provide them with everything they need.”
Lack of access to food, water and electricity
The city of Kharkov, with – before the war – about a million inhabitants, is located almost 30 kilometers from the Russian border. Russia has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine since February 24, in which Kharkiv has come under heavy fire several times.
In early October, the UN Emergency Relief Office (OCHA) in Geneva announced that an estimated 140,000 people are dependent on humanitarian aid in the Ukraine recaptured areas around Kharkiv. Most people have limited access to food, water, gas, electricity and medical care.
Eight missiles hit Kharkiv
Terekhov also reported new Russian attacks. “Eight rockets were fired in different districts of Kharkov,” the mayor said. A warehouse with relief supplies was destroyed, among other things. Information from the war zone can hardly be independently verified.
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Other places in Ukraine also spoke of further attacks. In Krivy Riy in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the east of the country, numerous areas are without electricity after a Russian attack on energy infrastructure, local authorities said on Wednesday. Russia had recently focused on the neighboring country’s energy infrastructure. In the capital Kiev, on the other hand, there was no air raid siren for 24 hours for the first time in more than a week.
Russia, for its part, reported Ukrainian attacks, including on an administrative building in the city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhya region. In addition, a Ukrainian attempt to recapture the Russian-occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia was repelled. This too could not be independently verified. (SDA/bab)