Sharjah24 – AFP: Four people have been killed and another nine wounded during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Russian forces landed on Wednesday, the emergencies services said.
"Four dead, nine injured," the services said, citing preliminary information.
Kharkiv, a largely Russian-speaking city near the Russian border, has a population of around 1.4 million.
It has been a target for Russian forces since President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine last Thursday and which intensified on Tuesday.
Ukraine's army said there were immediate clashes after Russian troops landed earlier in the day.
"Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkiv... and attacked a local hospital," the army said in a statement on messaging app Telegram.
"There is an ongoing fight between the invaders and the Ukrainians."
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