In Kharkiv, occupiers destroyed 1,177 apartment buildings
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In Kharkiv, as a result of Russian shelling and airstrikes, 1,177 apartment buildings have already been destroyed.
This was announced at a briefing on March 2 by Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, Ukrinform reports.
"The Russian army, the aggressor's army, purposefully, I emphasize, purposefully, shoots at residential neighborhoods. These are not just individual houses, but entire neighborhoods. Residents are under total bombardment. To date, 1,410 facilities in the city have been destroyed, of which 1,177 are multi-story residential buildings," Terekhov said.
According to him, 53 kindergartens, 69 schools, and 15 hospitals were destroyed in the city.
"This is the result of the aggression of the Russian Federation. At the same time, we are now forced to relocate people to schools and kindergartens, in basements, at subway stations," said the mayor.
He added that volunteers, risking their lives, deliver food to storage facilities in areas where the shelling does not stop at all.
Communal services are also working under fire, in particular, 104 garbage trucks are working on March 28.
According to Terekhov, there are supermarkets in the city, and all basic necessities are available. Kharkiv is also receiving humanitarian aid from other cities, and humanitarian aid has begun to arrive from America: the city of Chicago has sent $880,000 worth of medicine, which has been distributed to city hospitals and a military hospital.
The mayor also stressed that the spirit of unity and struggle prevails in Kharkiv, residents have radically changed their attitude toward the aggressor country.
"Kharkiv is a Russian-speaking city, before the war almost one in four had relatives in the Russian Federation or acquaintances, many had friends. And Kharkiv has always been considered more or less tolerant of the Russian Federation. Today the attitude to Russia, the aggressor, the aggressor's troops has changed dramatically I communicate with people every day. People could never have dreamed that Russia would attack Ukraine, attack the city of Kharkiv. Today each of us is ready to defend the city to the end. Kharkiv is one. We have an extraordinary spirit, the spirit of confrontation, the spirit of struggle, and the spirit of victory," said the mayor.
Kharkiv has reportedly been shelled daily since the start of the full-scale war. According to the regional military administration, last night Russian troops fired about 59 artillery and mortar shells in the Kharkiv districts of Saltivka, Oleksiivka, Piatihatky, and in the region, Chuhuiv and Derhachi.
Also, in the region, there were about 180 shellings by the enemy with MLRS, including the Tornado type, prohibited by international treaties. Fierce battles with the invaders continue in Izium.
