CENTRAL KHARKIV IN HUGE EXPLOSION

Freedom Square in central Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, has been hit by a Russian strike, causing a huge explosion.

A missile hit the regional government’s headquarters in the city near the Russian border.

President Zelensky of Ukraine receives a standing ovation in the European Parliament, telling them by video link: “Nobody will break us”.

UK PM Boris Johnson accuses Russia of “barbaric and indiscriminate” attacks.

Kharkiv, a city of 1.4m, is known as Ukraine’s tech capital and residential areas have been hit too.

Elsewhere, a huge convoy of Russian armoured vehicles is advancing on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

In the north-eastern city of Okhtyrka, up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery strike.

BBC

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