Belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. Putin said that the latest attacks on ukraine are part of an effort to demilitarise ukraine. 0ur Eastern Europe correspondent sarah rainsford, reports from kharkiv. Here in kharkiv there was just another air raid. And those are happening almost every day now. We heard the sound of explosions and thats when metro stations like this one become a shelter for people. People head underground to hide from those missiles, because itjust takes a few seconds before they reach this city from russia, which is around about a0 kilometres away. Now, we dont know what was targeted this time, but we do know over overnight here in ukraine, there was a Massive Attack by russia on the Energy Infrastructure right across the country, from west to here in the northeast. And here in kharkiv, 300 missiles were fired. They destroyed a power substation, electricity substation, and they damaged yet another power plant here. And the city is struggling. You know, the metro
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