Russia attacks Kharkiv, killing eight people and ending the city’s brief reprieve.

Russia shelled the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing eight people and wounding more than a dozen others after almost two weeks of relative quiet in Ukraine’s second largest city.

Several neighborhoods “came under fire from rocket-propelled grenade launchers and artillery,” the regional governor, Oleh Synehubov, said. Another person was killed and another wounded in the nearby town of Dergachi.

Among the dead was a father and his 5-month-old baby who had been walking down the street at the time of the attack, the head of Ukraine’s national police wrote on Facebook. The baby’s mother was badly injured. Read more

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