Russian forces would need years to occupy the city of Kharkiv, Oleksandr Pivnenko, a commander of Ukraine’s National Guard, said in an interview with the Liga.net media outlet on April 23.
Russia targeted a TV tower in Kharkiv shortly before a scheduled conversation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden on April 22, according to Zelenskyy’s evening address.
In the latest attack on Kharkiv, Russian forces struck the city’s television broadcasting tower on April 22, causing the top half of the mast to collapse.
A 240-meter tall TV tower in the administrative center of Kharkiv was partially destroyed in a Russian attack on April 22, causing interruptions in the digital TV signal, regional governor Oleh Synehubov reported on Telegram.