The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

‘This is the reckless targeting of human life,’ the journalist says

Valentyna Zakharchuk is a Ukrainian citizen who will provide daily on-the-ground updates of the Russian invasion for Benzinga. Rescuers are doing their best at the cost of their own lives. 

More than 100 people are rescued from a bomb shelter buried under rubble after Russian shelling destroyed the building around it where about 1,000 Ukrainians sought shelter.

‘Right now in Ukraine social networks are really active’

More than 600 buildings in Ukraine's second-largest city have been destroyed, Kharkiv mayor says.

Analysis: Looking at the fighting so far, some think Putin will be unable to conquer and occupy, but others see ominous signs

Efforts to stock up Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro are under way as the wider repercussions of the conflict are felt in Yemen and Lebanon

Maxar Technologies' satellite imagery "reveals significant damage to residential and civilian infrastructure".

In Kharkiv's regional infectious diseases hospital, doctors escort those COVID-19 patients they can down to the bomb shelter in the basement when the air raid sirens sound. But the most seriously ill, needing constant oxygen supply, cannot be moved, even if this means leaving them vulnerable to Russian bombardment. "The…