Russian rockets destroy school and children's health centre in Kharkiv - local officials

Record ID: 1680452

  • Title: Russian rockets destroy school and children's health centre in Kharkiv - local officials
  • Date: 10th July 2022
  • Summary: KHARKIV, UKRAINE (July 10, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CLEANING BROKEN GLASS IN SCHOOL CORRIDOR (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, IRYNA CHEPIHA, SAYING: “This cannot be explained with any words. This does not fit into any intelligent framework. The brain refuses to acknowledge what has happened here.” VARIOUS OF DAMAGED SCHOOL EXTERIORS VARIOUS OF DAMAGED
  • Embargoed: 24th July 2022 15:16
  • Keywords: Kharkiv shelling Russian invasion War in Ukraine
  • Location: KHARKIV, UKRAINE
  • City: KHARKIV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001086910072022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Russian rockets damaged a school and a health centre for children early on Sunday (July 10), according to local officials.
    The shelling left no casualties, but severely damaged the school’s building.
    “I think that this is genocide of our nation and our culture,” Vadym Kostenko, whose granddaughter went to the damaged school, told Reuters.
    Local resident Natalia Kvashnina thinks Russia targets Ukraine's schools on purpose to prevent Ukrainians from learning their own language and culture.
    “They (Russians) don't want us to learn the Ukrainian language or culture, nothing,” Kvashnina said, looking at the school ruins.
    In another district, a rocket destroyed a private house and damaged a health centre for children.
    “I am speechless. I don’t even want to think about them!” said Tetiana Vlasenko, a children sanatorium worker.
    Russian forces have been pounding Kharkiv for weeks now.
    Regional authorities said apartment buildings and schools have been targeted, with civilians killed.
    Russia renewed its shelling of the city and the surrounding countryside in what Kyiv says is a bid to force Ukraine to pull resources from the main battlefield in Donbas to protect civilians from attack.
    Russia denies targeting civilians in what it calls a "special military operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" Ukraine.
    (Production: Vitalii Hnidyi, Andrii Pryimachenko)
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