Russian Federation forces have stepped up their campaign of air strikes with missiles and drones against the concentration of foreign mercenary troops.
Once again, a precision strike on was aimed at a temporary location of foreign militants in the city of Kharkov, primarily composed of French mercenaries.
Reuters reported:
“Russia said on Wednesday its forces had carried out a precision strike a day earlier on a building housing ‘foreign fighters’ in Ukraine’s second city Kharkov.
The defense ministry said the fighters were mostly French mercenaries and the building was destroyed, with more than 60 people killed.”
Local officials in Kharkov said two Russian missiles struck a residential area in the centre of the city on Tuesday.
This in a way repeats the attack in late December, the Russian armed forces have hit the former Kharkov Palace Hotel, where Ukrainian intelligence and military officials, along with up to 200 foreign mercenaries, were staying.
Kharkov, Ukraine’s second-largest city that lies close to the Russian border, has been under persistent shelling since the beginning of the war – but now the strikes have more frequently targeted the mercenary units.
The strikes hit a multi-storey building in central Kharkov, ‘gutting the structure and leaving debris strewn around the street below’.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said his country’s priority in 2024 was gaining control over its skies.
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