KYIV: Russia launched five missile strikes on Ukraine’s second-biggest city Kharkiv on Monday, damaging energy infrastructure, and attacked an enterprise owned by US agricultural producer Bunge in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the Dnipro attack, which caused a leak of sunflower oil, underscored the fact that Russian forces were targeting US businesses. Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said, had “complete disregard” for US-led efforts to resolve the nearly four-year-old war.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the strikes on his city were “not just an attack on facilities. It’s an attack on heating, on water, on people’s normal lives. They are trying to break us with fear and darkness.”
Terekhov gave no details on which targets had been hit.
Kharkiv’s regional prosecutors’ office said in a statement that at least one civilian was injured in the attack.
