Atlanta. This is cnn cnn Breaking News hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday on for that, the width hailed and we begin with dramatic video of the moment, a russian strike hit a Shopping Center in kharkiv, ukraines second largest city these two people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack two more strikes in other parts of kharkiv followed the initial hit. Cnn nick kate walsh is eastern ukraine. Nick russia has been on the offensive in kharkiv is this stepping up of their attack yeah. Look, i mean, this could have been potentially the worst civilian casualties weve seen since russias offensive about two weeks ago now from the north of kharkiv, from their border areas down to ukraines second city at the moment, the Death Toll Vote is for, has been rising. We could have as many as 40 injured in this one attack on a huge Hardware Store complex in an area in the Northern Areas of kharkiv. Weve been there ourselves, a chain store across all of ukr
christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week. this is cnn breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield if breaking news from the middle east right now, the idf says eight israeli soldiers were killed during what they re calling an incident in rafah it marks one of the deadliest single incidents for israeli forces since october 7. cnn s paula hancocks is live for us in tel aviv. paula, what more can you tell us? well, fread, we understand this happened in the western area of refer. it s an area where there has been fighting over but recent days. now the idf saying eight soldiers have been killed in this particular incidents that they are looking into it, investigating, finding it the cause of what happened, as you say, it is one of the deadliest days from the israeli military side since october 7. now, what we re hearing is a statement as well. from hamas. they say that they carried o