On Monday, the fifth day of the Russian assault, that
changed when Kharkiv was hit by a barrage of rockets...[raising] new alarms about how far the Kremlin was willing to go to subjugate its smaller neighbor.
[Igor] Terekhov [mayor of Kharkiv] said four people had been killed when they emerged from bomb shelters to find water. And he said a family of five — two adults and three children — was burned alive when a shell hit their car. Another 37 people were wounded, he said.
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“We are convinced that this was a cluster munition attack,” Stephen Goose, a munitions expert at Human Rights Watch, said in an email.
The indiscriminate nature of the Kharkiv assault, made clear in videos verified by The New York Times, may indicate impatience by President Vladimir V. Putin with his military’s progress…
Yes, indeed.
