Two people were killed and six wounded in a Russian strike on Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, early on April 30, regional head Oleh Synyehubov said on Telegram as an air-raid alert was announced for most of the country. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said separately that two infrastructure targets were hit during the strike. The air-raid alert was declared for the regions of Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzya, and Donetsk. To read the original stories by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here and here.
2 Killed In Russian Strike On Ukraine's Kharkiv
Aftermath of a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv (file photo)