{"id":67534,"date":"2024-10-29T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/29\/ukraine-war-briefing-bomb-derzhprom-historic-landmark-kharkiv"},"modified":"2024-10-29T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T04:24:37","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-bomb-shatters-historic-landmark-in-kharkiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67534","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Bomb shatters historic landmark in Kharkiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prized Derzhprom building damaged in attacks injuring 19, while at least four killed in city overnight; North Korean foreign minister heads to Russia as Nato chief says Kim Jong-un\u2019s troops are in Kursk. What we know on day 979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">See all our Ukraine war coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least <strong>four people died<\/strong> in overnight <strong>Russian bombing of Kharkiv<\/strong>, its mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said on Tuesday morning. The deaths took place in the Osnovianskyi district, he said. Earlier, a<strong> Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv on Monday shattered much of the Derzhprom building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2015\/apr\/20\/kharkiv-derzhprom-building-europe-first-skyscraper-history-cities-50-buildings\">one of the most celebrated landmarks in Ukraine\u2019s second city<\/a>,<\/strong> dating from the 1920s and noted by Unesco. Six people were injured in the 9pm strike, adding to 13 wounded in an earlier overnight bomb attack on the city. Eight were hurt in a rocket attack in the <strong>city of Chuhuiv<\/strong> just to the south-east, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured and a residential building caught on fire in <strong>Kyiv\u2019s Solomianskyi district<\/strong> after a Russian drone attack, the mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Tuesday morning. The Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv\u2019s west was also hit.<\/p>\n<p>In the central Ukrainian city of <strong>Kryvyi<\/strong> <strong>Rih, a Russian missile struck a three-storey residential building, killing one person and wounding at least 11 <\/strong>on Monday. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine\u2019s president, deplored the attack on his home town, as well as on Kharkiv, and called for renewed efforts to force Vladimir Putin to halt the war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the southern Kherson region, a drone attack killed a medic on Monday<\/strong>, the regional governor said. Another three people were killed in Kherson region on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Russian army advanced 478 sq km into Ukrainian territory in October, a record since March 2022<\/strong> in the first weeks of the war, according to an AFP analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Two-thirds of the Russian gains that the news agency calculated were in the eastern Donetsk region. Russian forces are a few kilometres from Pokrovsk, which they are approaching from the south and east. They have also gained territory at the north of the front, having seized more than 40 sq km near Kupiansk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>North Korea\u2019s foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, left Pyongyang on Monday to visit Russia<\/strong>, state media KCNA said on Tuesday. It came as the Nato chief, Mark Rutte, said after a briefing with South Korean intelligence officials that he could <strong>confirm North Korean military units had been deployed in Russia\u2019s western Kursk region,<\/strong> where Ukrainian troops occupy territory. He called the involvement of Kim Jong-un\u2019s regime \u201ca dangerous expansion of Russia\u2019s war\u201d and \u201ca sign of Putin\u2019s growing desperation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelenskyy on Monday said he expected 12,000 North Korean soldiers on Russian territory \u201csoon\u201d<\/strong> as he met with Nordic leaders in Iceland. He warned that about 3,000 North Korean soldiers and officers were \u201calready on Russian territory\u201d and Russia would use them in its war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pentagon said North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to eastern Russia, up from its previous estimate of 3,000<\/strong>. The US president, Joe Biden, called the situation \u201cvery dangerous\u201d. Matthew Miller, US state department spokesman, said Washington had also <strong>made clear to China<\/strong> \u201cthat we are concerned about it and that they ought to be concerned about this destabilising action by two of its neighbours, Russia and North Korea\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three Russian agencies<\/strong> and three senior figures at the agencies who it said were trying to use <strong>disinformation to \u201cundermine and destabilise Ukraine<\/strong> and its democracy\u201d. Britain\u2019s foreign ministry said the Social Design Agency and its partner company Structura had attempted to deliver a series of \u201cinterference operations\u201d designed to weaken international support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Croatia<\/strong> will buy up to 50 Leopard tanks from Germany in a transaction that includes <strong>sending some of its older tanks and other military equipment to Ukraine<\/strong>, the Croatian ministry of defence said on Monday. It added that the value of the older eastern European-made tanks and equipment would be deducted from the total price for the new Leopard 2A8 tanks that Croatia will buy. Since the start of Russia\u2019s invasion in February 2022, Croatia has delivered military aid worth more than \u20ac200m to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/29\/ukraine-war-briefing-bomb-derzhprom-historic-landmark-kharkiv\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prized Derzhprom building damaged in attacks injuring 19, while at least four killed in city overnight; North Korean foreign minister heads to Russia as Nato chief says Kim Jong-un\u2019s troops are in Kursk. 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