Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022 Putin’s troops land in Kharkiv as Zelenskiy says ‘they have orders to erase us all’

Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022 Enters Day 7

Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022 Putin’s troops land in Kharkiv as Zelenskiy says ‘they have orders to erase us all’

It is 9.30am in Ukraine. Here’s where we stand right now: Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022 Putin’s troops land in Kharkiv as Zelenskiy says ‘they have orders to erase us all’.

Russian troops have reportedly landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second most populous city, according to the Security Service of Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities said Russian airborne troops landed at approximately 3am local time and engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian authorities say a Russian missile strike at about 8.10am hit a police building and a university in Kharkiv this morning.
Overnight reports said a fire at a hospital in Kharkiv broke out. According to an alert issued just before 3am from Ukraine’s State Special Communications agency, Russian soldiers attacked a military medical clinical centre hospital in the city’s north.
In Kherson on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, Russian forces have taken control of the railway station and the port overnight, city mayor Igor Kolykhayev was quoted by local media, Agence France-Press reports.
Ukraine is set to receive more Stinger and Javelin missiles from abroad, as well as another shipment of Turkish drones, according to Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov.
Germany is prepared should Russia stop exporting gas to the country, minister for the economy Robert Habeck has said.
More than 450,000 people entered Poland from Ukraine since the Russian invasion began last Thursday, Poland’s deputy interior minister Pawel Szefernaker told private Radio Zet on Wednesday.
The United Nations said that at least 136 civilians have been killed in the invasion, although the real number of people is likely much higher.
At least 21 people have been killed and 112 wounded from shelling in Ukraine’s second most populous city, Kharkiv, the regional governor said.
Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, is leaving the European market as its subsidiaries there face large cash outflows and threats to the safety of employees and property, the bank said on Wednesday.
Moscow’s stock market will stay closed for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, the Moscow Times reports.
Russia president Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to prohibit Russians from leaving the country with more than $10,000 in foreign currency, Russia state media outlet Tass reports.
US president Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address from Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening, commending the Ukrainian people’s resolve to fight and vowing that Putin must “pay a price” for his actions in Ukraine.
The US will ban Russian flights from its airspace, US president Joe Biden confirmed.