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Update as of 10:00 PM EDT: All of Ukraine is now under air raid alert.
Casualties are coming in for Kharkiv:
Two civilians were killed and at least seven were injured in russian missile attack on Kharkiv, Governor Syniehubov reported. https://t.co/WrPhyuVpXj
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 6, 2024
As I begin to write tonight’s update – 7:20 PM EDT – the eastern half of Ukraine is under air raid alert!
Kharkiv is under missile and Shahed drone attack!
Right now, Kharkiv is under russian missile attack!
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 5, 2024
Shahed drones reportedly detected in Kharkiv Oblast!
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 5, 2024
Earlier today Russia did another double tap strike in Zaporizhzhia targeting rescue workers who’d responded to the initial strike.
Again a Russian double tap attack on Ukraine. This time on Zaporizhzhia. One missile strike, then, 40 minutes after, another one. Four people killed, many injured. Journalists who were on the scene to film the first attack, wounded too. Ukraine needs air defence urgently!
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) April 5, 2024
“they’ve just hit us with two more rockets right as we were filling the site of the first attack”
harrowing moment of russians attacking journalists and first-responders with “double-tap” in today’s bombing of my homecity Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/zPgS1Aiei9
— вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️🌈 (@maksymeristavi) April 5, 2024
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.