Alleged white phosphorous assault by Russia on Ukrainian village in Kharkiv area

Sixteen homes within the Ukrainian village of Bezruky, Kharkiv area, had been destroyed by Russian air strikes on Saturday evening.

Native officers stated it was essentially the most intense spherical of air assaults for the reason that early days of the warfare, with the top of the native municipal administration, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, claiming that Russia had used cluster phosphorous munitions to focus on civilian infrastructure.

No residents had been harmed within the strikes, in keeping with Ukrainian officers, with many having already been evacuated. Nonetheless some 1,000 individuals nonetheless dwell in Bezruky.