Zelensky: Russia’s Kharkiv attacks are war crimes

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Ukrainian President has accused Russia of war crimes after it launched an air strikes on the country’s second city, Kharkiv.

At least 10 people were killed and 35 hurt when an opera house, a concert hall and government offices were struck in Kharkiv’s Freedom Square on Tuesday.

Later, Ukraine’s military said Russian troops had parachuted into Kharkiv in an effort to capture the besieged city.

The military said there were immediate clashes after the paratroopers landed.

Earlier on Tuesday, the main TV tower in the capital Kyiv was also hit, knocking media off air and killing five people.

Moscow warned residents near Kyiv’s military areas to leave their homes.

The explosion sent smoke billowing from the steel structure, but the tower remains standing.

A nearby memorial to victims of the Holocaust was damaged in the same strike. The Babyn Yar ravine is Europe’s largest mass grave of the Holocaust where more than 70,000 people, mostly Jews, were shot by the Nazis.

Zelensky said on Twitter that the attack was “history repeating…”.

“What is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?”

Satellite images reveal a huge Russian military convoy snaking towards Kyiv, amid fears of an all-out assault on the capital.