GRAPHIC At least two killed in Russian shelling
Published Date: 7/26/2022
Source: AP Archive
(21 Jul 2022)
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Kharkiv - 21 July 2022
1. Body of Artem Pogorelets, who was killed by Russian bombardment, on the ground
2. Various of Sabina Pogorelets, crying near body of her husband, UPSOUND (Russian): "Please I need to hold his hand"
3. Various of Sabina crying
4. Bloodied sheet
5. Sabina crying
6. People in street
7. Body
8. Sabina crying
9. Pan from body to Sabina being led away
10. Various of medics putting body in bag
11. Sabina crying
12. Various of medics and journalists carrying body to ambulance
13. Cars burned by bombardment, ambulance leaving in background
14. Damaged car
15. Various of paramedics and officials assisting injured
16. Various of damaged bus
17. Firefighters entering metro station
18. Various of paramedics and firefighters assisting and moving injured person
19. People running
20. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alla Alexandrovna, resident:
"There were injured (people). I bandaged one badly injured woman and (an) ambulance took her. Everything possible was done, everyone helped. There was help."
21. Ambulance leaving
22. Various of police officers examining small crater left by strike
23. People at market
24. Man standing next to shattered glass in shop door
25. Various of police examining munition remains
26. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the National Police in the Kharkiv region:
"People started working little by little, they came out to sell things and residents came here to buy things. It's necessary during the war because people need to survive, feed families, buy clothes for children. And this place was hit by 'Uragan' rockets with cluster bombs to maximise the damage to people. So the idea of those who pushed the button on the rocket launcher was to maximise damage to the civilian population."
27. Entrance to metro station with market pavilions burned in background by shelling the previous month
28. Burned and damaged pavilions
29. Regional government building damaged by Russian bombardment in first days of the war
STORYLINE:
Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine's second-largest city Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 21 with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses at the scene.
Police in the northeast city of Kharkiv said cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market, a public bazaar where Associated Press journalists saw a woman crying over her dead husband's body.
Local officials said the shelling also struck a bus stop, a gym and a residential building.
The bombardment came after Russia on Wednesday reiterated its plans to seize territories beyond eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has spent months trying to conquer Ukraine's Donbas region, which is south of Kharkiv.
Ukrainian officials recently aired their plans to try to recapture Russian-occupied areas near the country's southern Black Sea coast.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attacks early Thursday targeted one of the most crowded areas of the city, which had a prewar population of about 1.4 million.
The police claim that cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market could not be independently confirmed.
The AP journalists at the scene shortly after the attack reported seeing burned-out cards and a bus pierced by shrapnel.
The Kharkiv region's governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said four people were in grave condition and a child was among those wounded in the shelling.
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