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TV tower in Kharkiv collapsed after assault

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The 240 meter excessive tv tower within the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv has collapsed. The metropolis's governor mentioned Russia was liable for the assault. There are mentioned to be no accidents.

NAfter a Russian assault on the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv, the tv tower collapsed on Monday. An AFP journalist noticed the collapse of the 240-meter-high constructing. Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synegubow mentioned Russia had made a “television infrastructure setup.” According to him, the workers bought to security through the alarm, so there have been no casualties.

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There had been “interruptions in the signal for digital television,” Synegubow continued. Photos and movies confirmed the tower collapsing and smoke rising.

Television towers in Ukraine have been bombed or fired at a number of instances because the Russian invasion greater than two years in the past. The intention is seemingly to chop off the inhabitants from data from Ukrainian sources.

Before the warfare, 1.4 million individuals lived within the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv, close to the Russian border. It has been more and more attacked by Russian troops in current weeks. The energy provide is already disrupted and there may be solely electrical energy on an hourly foundation.

Russia conquers one other jap Ukrainian village

Meanwhile, the Russian armed forces report the seize of one other village in jap Ukraine. The Defense Ministry in Moscow introduced on Monday that this was the city of Novomykhailivka within the Donetsk area. This improved the tactical state of affairs.

Novomykhaliwka is situated an excellent 20 kilometers southwest of the regional capital Donetsk, which is below Russian management. The conquest was not confirmed by the Ukrainian facet. The basic workers report spoke of repulsed assaults. Ukrainian navy observers had already marked the place as Russian-controlled that night time.

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Meanwhile, the pinnacle of Ukrainian navy intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, mentioned that he anticipated the state of affairs on the entrance to additional deteriorate “from mid-May.” “We won't go into too much detail, but there will be a difficult period in mid-May and early June,” he mentioned in an interview with the Ukrainian service of the British broadcaster BBC.

“We think that a rather difficult situation awaits us in the near future,” Budanov added. But it would “not be catastrophic”. “Armageddon will not happen, contrary to what many are currently saying.”

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article251159860/Ukraine-Fernsehturm-in-Charkiw-nach-Angriff-eingestuerzt.html