Ukraine, unprecedented attack on Kharkiv. The toll is four dead and more than 20 injured
Russia, in accordance with the Istanbul Accords, started the process of transferring over 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers who fell on the battlefield
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Russia has targeted Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, pounding it on Friday night and Saturday with missile and drone attacks and then the following afternoon with a new raid. The overall toll is four dead and more than 20 wounded, including a one-month-old baby. The attack on Kharkiv was 'unprecedented', said mayor Igor Terekhov, who reported 'at least 40 explosions in an hour and a half'. Raids came after Moscow had already hit the whole of Ukraine on Friday with intense bombings, presenting them as a response to the 'spider web' operation by Ukrainian 007s that hit several Russian air bases and bombers on 1 June.
In this regard, Donald Trump, speaking to reporters, said that the Ukrainians 'gave Putin a reason to go carpet-bombing them'.
"When I saw it I thought: here we are, now there will be retaliation," he added, specifying that he hoped the conflict would not go nuclear. Putin is 'a murderer' who kills children, Volodymyr Zelensky said for his part, responding to Trump's words on 5 June, when the tycoon had given a signal that he wanted to pull out of the mediation by comparing Russia and Ukraine to 'two children who beat each other like madmen in a park' and adding that sometimes 'it is better to let them fight for a while before splitting them up'. With Vladimir Putin 'we are not children in a playground', he 'is a murderer who came to this park to kill children', Zelensky said in an interview with Abc News.
Exchange of accusations between Ukraine and Russia are delaying this weekend's planned prisoner exchange. Russia has accused Ukraine of postponing the large-scale prisoner exchange and repatriation of the bodies of fallen soldiers, agreed at the Istanbul peace talks.
"The Ukrainian side has unexpectedly postponed indefinitely both the acceptance of the bodies and the exchange of the prisoners of war," said chief Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky. The Ukrainian side accused the Russians of disloyalty and manipulation in the matter.
