Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, is facing intense Russian airstrikes, but its residents are defiant. 'We can stand up, no matter what they do,” one said.
It made for an unlovely municipal symbol, soaring but hardly graceful: the 800-foot-tall Soviet-era television tower that was for decades a familiar signature in the skyline of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Ungainly though the tower may have been, the sight of its red-and-white upper mast plunging spearlike to the ground after a strike Monday by a Russian Kh-59 missile was a stinging affront to many in this city of 1.2 million people, only 25 miles from the Russian frontier.
” :: The young Kharkiv firefighter fell to his knees, tore off his helmet and buried his face in his hands as he wept. It had happened again: a Russian “double-tap” strike, seemingly meant to deliberately kill rescuers who had rushed to the scene of an attack. This one had taken his father, also a firefighter. The first strike, an hour after midnight in a residential area of Kharkiv, damaged a high-rise building and several lower-rise ones.
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