Russian steps up bombardments of Kharkiv, where Ukraine had pushed back its forces.

Shelling in and around Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv has grown worse, weeks after Ukrainian fighters pushed Russian forces back from the northeastern city.

“The shelling is intensifying today, and sharply intensifying since last night,” Kharkiv’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said on Ukrainian television on Monday. “Night, morning, day — various districts in the city of Kharkiv are constantly being shelled.”

Ten neighborhoods or villages around the city had been attacked in the past 24 hours, Kharkiv’s head of regional administration, Oleh Synebuhov, said in a Facebook post on Monday. Several people were injured, he wrote, and an elderly man in the village of Tsurkuny, about 10 miles outside of Kharkiv, died when he stepped on a land mine. Read more

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