The Kharkiv TV tower collapsed after the attack
“I saw the rocket tail in front of me – and then came the bang.”
No Ukrainian city is currently under airstrikes like Kharkiv. Now the city's television tower is badly damaged and partially collapsed. “We saw the attack live,” said chief anchor Tatjana Om from Khargi.
A 240-meter-tall television tower collapsed in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine. The city's governor said Russia was responsible for the attack. No injuries are reported.
NA television tower collapsed on Monday after a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. An AFP reporter observed the 240-meter-tall building collapse. Kharkiv Governor Ole Sinekupo said Russia had built a “television infrastructure”. According to him, there was no loss of life as the staff came to safety during the alarm.
“There were interruptions in the signal for digital television,” Sinekubo continued. Photos and videos showed the tower collapsing and billowing smoke.
Television towers in Ukraine have been bombed or shot at several times since the Russian invasion more than two years ago. Its purpose is to cut people off from information coming from Ukrainian sources.
Before the war, 1.4 million people lived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, close to the Russian border. It has come under increasing attack by Russian troops in recent weeks. As the power supply is already interrupted, there is only hours of electricity.
Russia captures another eastern Ukrainian village
Meanwhile, Russian armed forces say they have captured another village in eastern Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced on Monday that it was the town of Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region. This improved the tactical situation.
Novomykhaliwka is located 20 kilometers southwest of the regional capital Donetsk, which is under Russian control. The victory was not confirmed by the Ukrainian side. A report by the General Staff talks about the foiled attacks. Ukrainian military observers that night had already marked the area under Russian control.
Meanwhile, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrillo Budanov, said he expected the situation on the frontline to deteriorate further “from mid-May”. “We won't go into too much detail, but mid-May and early June will be a difficult period,” he said in an interview with British broadcaster BBC's Ukrainian service.
“We think that a difficult situation awaits us in the future,” Budanov added. But it is not “disastrous”. “Contrary to what many are now saying, Armageddon will not happen.”
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