Over 600 buildings destroyed in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, mayor says

Rescuers remove debris from a residential building damaged by an airstrike in Kharkiv

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – More than 600 buildings have been destroyed in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city in the east of the country, since the start of Russia’s invasion, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a televised interview on Tuesday.

“Schools, nurseries, hospitals, clinics have been destroyed. The Russian army is constantly shelling (us) from the ground and the air,” he said.

(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; Writing by Max Hunder; Editing by Edmund Blair)

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