Kharkiv governor says city, surrounding area still under heavy shelling by Russia

A woman stands in front of a damaged building in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, on April 2, 2022 (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
A woman stands in front of a damaged building in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, on April 2, 2022 (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

KYIV, Ukraine — The regional governor in Kharkiv says Russian troops have continued shelling the city in northeast Ukraine.

Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Synyehubov says that Russian artillery and tanks carried out over 20 strikes on Kharkiv and its outskirts over the past 24 hours.

Synyyehubov says four people were wounded in a Russian missile strike on Lozova in the south of the Kharkiv region.

He says that in the town of Balakliia Russian tanks hit a local hospital, damaging the building and prompting the authorities to evacuate patients.

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