On May 25th 2024, two Russian guided bombs hit the center of a shopping center in Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine, and a police officer registered the bodies in the car park after performing an autopsy. A woman stood by the bodies, stunned and grief-stricken. The police officer then took care of transporting the bodies.
On May 25th 2024, the Russian army dropped two gliding bombs on the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, hitting the Epitsentr hypermarket at the busiest time of day. According to Ukrainian authorities, there may have been around 200 people in the building when the bombs hit. Immediately after the impact, a fire broke out in the shopping center, and the entire shopping center was engulfed in flames. This Russian bombing has been confirmed to have killed 19 people and injured 54 more. The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, called the second Russian bombing of the city center pure terrorism.
The first shock wave shattered the aisles, where the merchandise from the home improvement store was piled up almost to the ceiling. The next Russian bomb fell like a comet a few seconds later, unleashing a blaze that reduced the megastore to ashes. Immediately after this attack, the Russian army attacked Kharkiv again, this time targeting a residential area in the center of the city, injuring 14 people. The third bomb landed behind the Epi-Center, a shopping complex in Kharkiv, but failed to detonate. Russia fired more than 3,000 bombs every month, with 3,200 used in May alone.
The Russian army used hacked bombs and an expanded air base network to make Ukraine's frontline towns disappear faster. The Russian military constructed airstrips less than 100km from Ukraine and routinely fired bombs at Ukraine from multiple bases within Russian territory. There are 51 bases used by the Russian military within 600km of Ukrainian territory, including 3 in the occupied eastern regions of Ukraine, 6 in the Crimea, and 32 in Russia.
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