{"id":1007258,"date":"2022-03-01T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/01\/nine-people-killed-after-russian-bombs-hit-residential-buildings-in-ukraines-second-city-video\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:24:58","slug":"nine-people-killed-after-russian-bombs-hit-residential-buildings-in-ukraines-second-city-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/01\/nine-people-killed-after-russian-bombs-hit-residential-buildings-in-ukraines-second-city-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine people killed after Russian bombs hit residential buildings in Ukraine\u2019s second city [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"459\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image_2022-03-01_050827-696x459.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image_2022-03-01_050827\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Russian forces\u00a0<strong>bombarded a residential area in Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city<\/strong>\u00a0with rockets on Monday, killing at least nine people, and several large detonations were heard in the center of the capital Kyiv, as talks between delegates on both sides in Belarus came to a close.<\/p>\n<p>The attack and explosions were launched as\u00a0<strong>Russia becomes increasingly isolated<\/strong>\u00a0from the rest of the world, particularly Western nations, which have been imposing a rash of sanctions on the country since it launched its invasion of Ukraine last week.<\/p>\n<p>The bombardment in the city of\u00a0<strong>Kharkiv<\/strong>\u00a0on Monday killed nine civilians, including three children, and wounded 37 others, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. CNN is reaching out to Russian authorities for comment on the attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to social media videos geolocated by CNN, multiple rockets were seen exploding closely together in a residential part of the Saltivka neighborhood, near a supermarket in the northeast of the city, which the Russian military has frequently targeted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Barbaric Russian missile strikes on the central Freedom Square and residential districts of Kharkiv. Putin is unable to break Ukraine down. He commits more war crimes out of fury, murders innocent civilians. The world can and must do more. INCREASE PRESSURE, ISOLATE RUSSIA FULLY! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tN4VHF1A9n\">pic.twitter.com\/tN4VHF1A9n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DmytroKuleba\/status\/1498569115950272517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large td-caption-align-https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image_2022-03-01_043419.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image_2022-03-01_043419-1024x667.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2085806\"  \/><figcaption>Aftermath of blast | Getty Images <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova described the situation in Kharkiv as \u201chellish\u201d and shared a video on Facebook of a missile that hit a kitchen window and tore off the leg of a woman, who she said later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>As talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials ended early Monday evening, CNN reporters in Kyiv heard several large detonations, followed by sirens going off across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides discussed a potential \u201cceasefire and the end of combat actions on the territory of Ukraine,\u201d Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhaylo Podolyak told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Without going into detail, Podolyak said that both sides would return to their capitals for consultations over whether to implement a number of \u201cdecisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parties discussed holding another round of negotiations where these decisions can develop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine had earlier demanded an \u201cimmediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office said earlier Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky earlier downplayed the significance of the talks, which he is not attending in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not really believe in the result of this meeting, but let them try, so that no citizen of Ukraine would have any doubt that I, as president, did not try to stop the war when there was even a small chance,\u201d he said Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"bJ8wUAAdcwk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Social media videos show fighting on Ukraine streets\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bJ8wUAAdcwk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Russians face determined resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Ukrainians have attached little hope in the talks yielding a pathway to peace, the opportunities to deescalate the conflict appear to be quickly shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting has intensified in Ukraine in the past day in a number of strategic cities. A senior US defense official told reporters on Monday that taking Kharkiv \u201cremains an objective\u201d for the Russians, and \u201cthey continue to try to advance on\u201d the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. But the Russians have not taken either city yet, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The official explained that if Russia captures both cities \u201cyou can see that would allow them to section off the eastern part of Ukraine,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, CNN reporters witnessed at least three \u201cUragan\u201d multiple rocket launchers in the Russian side of the border south of Belgorod heading towards the Kharkiv front line. They saw three launchers and a loading vehicle with missiles on it.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s larger and far better-equipped military has, however, faced determined resistance across the country, as ordinary Ukrainians and reservists join efforts to defend their families and homes, frustrating Moscow\u2019s attempts to swiftly take control of key cities.<\/p>\n<p>Western allies have been increasing its assistance to Ukraine through funds and weapons to aid its defense.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220228114129-04-ukraine-russia-talks-belarus-022822-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Delegates from Russia and Ukraine take part in talks on Monday. \"\/><figcaption>Delegates from Russia and Ukraine take part in talks on Monday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine said its air force shot down a cruise missile launched at the city from Belarus Sunday, and claimed a\u00a0successful drone attack\u00a0against a Russian BUK surface-to-air missile system near the capital.<\/p>\n<p>But Western military assessments caution that Ukrainian forces cannot holdout indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, it appeared the the bulk of Russian ground forces were more than 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of Kyiv, according to an intelligence update by the the UK\u2019s Ministry of Defense. The advance of those troops was slowed by stiff Ukrainian resistance at the nearby Hostomel airfield, \u201ca key Russian objective for day one of the conflict,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian military announced what it described as an \u201copen and safe\u201d corridor for civilians to leave the capital on Monday, while repeating a baseless claim that the Ukrainian government was using residents as a \u201chuman shield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Ukrainian troops appear to be holding ground in the country\u2019s north, Russian forces have made some advances to the south. On Sunday Russian troops\u00a0took control of Berdyansk\u00a0\u2014 a port city of 100,000 people on Ukraine\u2019s southern coast, and the site of a small naval base.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing Russian assault has inflicted widespread suffering and casualties on the Ukrainian population. More than half a million refugees have fled Ukraine to neigboring countries, according to the UN\u2019s refugee agency. The number of known civilians killed in Ukraine stands at 352, with 14 of those children, Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Interior said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s General Staff of the Armed Forces accused Russia of hitting civilian areas. \u201cIn violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, the occupiers have insidiously inflicted missile strikes on residential buildings in Zhytomir and Chernyhiv,\u201d a statement said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is unable to independently verify these claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concerns over nuclear confrontation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pressure is intensifying on the Kremlin as Western allies of Ukraine try to prop up the country with weapons and as Russia faces financial turmoil, with the ruble in free fall.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday raised the stakes by ordering his country\u2019s nuclear forces to be placed on high alert.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Sunday, Belarus renounced its non-nuclear status in a referendum, after the former Soviet nation became a launch pad for Russia\u2019s invasion in Ukraine last week. The vote in favor of a new constitution could theoretically allow Russia to place nuclear weapons back in Belarus for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, when Belarus gave up its stockpile and became a nuclear free zone.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220227180347-russian-convoy-022722-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"New satellite images show a more than three-mile-long Russian military convoy on a roadway that heads toward the capital city. \"\/><figcaption>New satellite images show a more than three-mile-long Russian military convoy on a roadway that heads toward the capital city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Addressing journalists at a polling station in Minsk, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he could ask Putin to \u201creturn the nuclear weapons\u201d Belarus gave away if the West transferred any nuclear weapons to Poland or Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian intelligence also indicated Belarus could be preparing to \u201cparticipate directly\u201d in the invasion of Ukraine, according to two sources close to the Ukrainian government. Lukashenko said last week that Belarusian troops could join the invasion \u201cif it becomes necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the UK said it will provide an additional $53 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine and British leaders plan to\u00a0introduce legislation\u00a0in Parliament aimed at clamping down on Russian money laundering and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>And Australian travel bans and targeted financial sanctions against Putin and senior members of his government went into effect Monday, the country\u2019s Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea and Singapore on Monday also announced new sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"k320NZgoKWw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police to Put Suspect Before Court For Faking Robbery- Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (1-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k320NZgoKWw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces\u00a0bombarded a residential area in Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city\u00a0with rockets on Monday, killing at least nine people, and several large detonations were heard in the center of the capital Kyiv, as talks between delegates on both sides in Belarus came to a close. 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