'Almost 6000 Russians killed in 6 days of war'
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On the seventh day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said almost 6,000 Russians have been in 6 days of the war. Reuters quoted Zelenskiy as saying even as the Russian airborne troops landed in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, which is under intense shelling for the past few days.
Announcing that the US is banning Russia from its airspace, Biden said the Russian president met with “a wall of strength” in Ukraine. Biden’s comments come as Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine’s second-biggest city and Kyiv’s main TV tower.
Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine's second-biggest city and Kyiv's main TV tower in what the country's President called a blatant campaign of terror. "Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed after the bloodshed on the square in Kharkiv. The UN human rights office said it has recorded 136 civilian deaths.
The bombing came after Russia announced it would target transmission facilities used by Ukraine's intelligence agency. It urged people living near such places to leave their homes. Zelenskyy's office also reported a powerful missile attack on the site of the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial, near the tower.
Zelenskyy pronounced the attack on the square "frank, undisguised terror'' and a war crime. This is state terrorism of the Russian Federation, he said. In an emotional appeal to the European Parliament later, Zelenskyy said, ''We are fighting also to be equal members of Europe. I believe that today we are showing everybody that is what we are."
Another Russian airstrike hit a residential area near a hospital in the city of Zhytomyr, Mayor Serih Sukhomlin said in a Facebook video. Ukrainians have so far used whatever they had to try to stop the Russian advance. On a highway between Odesa and Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, residents piled tractor tires filled with sand and topped with sandbags to block convoys.