Russia bombs the seat of government in Kharkov and prepares to surround Kiev with dozens of tanks

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The attacks against Kharkov, in northeastern Ukraine, continued on Tuesday.

Some attacks that "violate the laws of war", as denounced by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs,

, after speaking with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba.

Regional Governor Oleg Sinegubov said the shells hit the local government headquarters and accused Russia of using "

. "

At the same time, the Russian army surrounds Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Kherson and Mariupol with armored vehicles, missiles and artillery.

The satellite images of the American company Maxar captured last night a

Kharkov - close to the Russian border and the separatist-controlled territories, where Russian is the mother tongue of 80% of the inhabitants - has become a crucial battlefield.

And there the Russian army has

that it had been maintaining in what it calls its "military operation."

Zelenski, who will give a speech on Tuesday by videoconference before the plenary session of the European Parliament, denounced last night that the attacks in Ukraine did not stop even during the first negotiations between the two sides, held yesterday in Belarus, and said that the bombings in the "city peace" of Kharkov constituted "

Meanwhile, the number of victims continues to rise.

Although according to the UN Human Rights Office there have been 102 deaths and 304 civilian injuries since the war began, the Ukrainian authorities estimate that 352 people have lost their lives;

including at least 14 children.

This same Tuesday, Russia has once again insisted on the same speech by Putin last Thursday that justified the invasion of Ukraine.

According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Moscow will continue its offensive in Ukraine until it achieves its objectives, which consist of "the protection of the population of Donbas, as well as the

", the two terms he has repeated As a mantra, Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov before the UN Human Rights Council, while accusing Kiev of eight years of violations of fundamental freedoms of the Russian-speaking population.

Shoigu denies that Russian forces target civilian infrastructure and accuses Ukrainian forces of using it as a shield to protect themselves.

"Multiple rocket launchers and large-caliber mortars are installed in the yards of buildings near schools and kindergartens," Shoigu said.

Yesterday, the adviser to the Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, denounced that Kharkov had been "massively bombed with grad".

Grad', which means 'hail' in Russian, refers to a model of

used by the armies of the former Soviet Union.

In the videos broadcast of the attacks, it is seen how up to 15 missiles hit a sector of the city.

In addition to the huge column near the north of Kiev, the images also show a huge military deployment in Belarus, less than 30 kilometers from Ukraine.

In the capital, the volunteer militiamen prepare to send in improvised barricades.

Mariupol, a major port on the Sea of ​​Azov, has been left without electricity after the attacks and the region's governor said that the neighboring town of Volnovakha, home to 20,000 people,

These two cities are between the territory controlled by the pro-Russian separatist rebels in the east and the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014: the Russian objective is to try to

On the sixth day of war, the exodus is increasing.

There are already more than

in neighboring countries, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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