Guided bomb kills child in Kharkiv as Russia continues border push, Ukrainian officials say
A Russian guided bomb struck a high-rise apartment block in Kharkiv.
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A Russian guided bomb struck a high-rise apartment block on Wednesday evening in Kharkiv, killing a child and injuring at least 29 people, officials said.
Ukrainian officials also reported fighting in the Odesa region, while Russia said its military had taken another village in the Kharkiv region.
Amid international condemnation of its troops in Russia, North Korea launched a long-range missile test landing between Russia and Japan on Thursday.
A Russian guided bomb struck a high-rise apartment block on Wednesday evening in Kharkiv, killing a child and injuring at least 29 people, officials said.
Kharkiv region governor Oleh Syniehubov said the 11-year-old child had been pulled from under rubble with serious head wounds and fractures, but medics were unable to save him.
He had earlier said three people were trapped under rubble.
Mr Syniehubov said on the Telegram messaging app that the strike had triggered a fire and destroyed most of one entrance, making a huge hole in the building.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack underscored the need for more military aid from Ukraine's Western allies.
"Our partners can see what is happening every day," he wrote on Telegram.
"And in these conditions, every decision that is put off means, at the very least, dozens of lives and hundreds of Russian bombs used against Ukraine."
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, has remained in Ukrainian hands through the initial failed advance of Russian forces on the capital Kyiv in the early days of the February 2022 invasion.
It has since become a frequent target of Russian air attacks.
Russian forces close in on Kharkiv, Odesa
Kharkiv's governor said the strike triggered a fire and destroyed most of one entrance.
Russian forces have taken control of the settlement of Kruhliakivka, near the key town of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
Ukraine's military made no acknowledgement of Kruhliakivka falling into Russian hands, but officials said fighting was heavy in the area and the city of Kupiansk had come under Russian shelling.
Ukraine's General Staff listed Kruhliakivka as one of nine villages gripped by fighting, with 15 Russian attacks repelled and nine clashes still going on.
The Ukrainian military reported fighting in Odesa on Thursday, with Russian forces having launched two ballistic missiles and eight guided missiles to capture a strategic bridge across the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Estuary overnight.
The bridge is an important railway and car connection in the region and has been a target several times since Russia's February 2022 invasion.
It was unclear whether it had been damaged in the latest strike.
Russian forces also used two ballistic missiles to attack the eastern town of Kramatorsk, the Ukrainian military said.
Russian forces have continued their steady push westward through eastern Ukrainian sections of the 1,000-kilometre front line.
North Korea launches ballistic missile test after soldiers reported in Kursk
North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said.
The launch was reported from an area near the North's capital, Pyongyang, at 7:10am local time, the Joint Chiefs said in a statement.
The Japanese government later said the missile dropped into the sea at 8:37am, local time.
"It is believed the North Korea ballistic missile is a long-range ballistic missile fired at a high angle," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba later said there had been no reported damage from the launch.
Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said Japan strongly condemns the North's action, which threatened not only Japan but also the international community.
He said the flight time was likely the longest of North Korean missile launches and could be a new type of missile.
The launch follows reports from South Korea and the United States that North Korea had dispatched 11,000 troops to Russia for deployment in the war in Ukraine, with 3,000 of them already moved close to the front lines.
North Korea has already been supplying arms to Russia including missiles, artillery and anti-tank rockets in more than 13,000 containers since August last year, according to the South's intelligence agency.
Ukraine authorities have also said some of missiles fired by Russia were from the North.
Reuters
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