Ukrainian rescuers work at a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile, Kharkiv, September 1, 2024 (Sergey Kozlov/EPA-EFE)

Will A Kamala Harris Presidency Approve Ukraine’s Long-Range Strikes Inside Russia?

Sunday’s Coverage: Russia’s Mass Killing in Chasiv Yar and Kharkiv

Map: Institute for the Study of War

UPDATE 1524 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has hosted Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof in the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine.

The trip is the first to Ukraine by Schoof, who took office at the start of July.

The two leaders visited a lesson in a bunker school in Zaporizhzhia, which is the near the frontline of Russian occupation, and talked to pupils.

Schoof announced a new support package for Kyiv of more than €200 million for repair and protection of energy infrastructure.

Zelenskiy posted about the discussion:

Key priorities include air defense, the supply of additional Patriot systems and missiles for them, the expansion of our F-16 fleet, as well as defense packages for Ukraine — shells, equipment—and sanctions against Russia. All of these measures are essential to prevent Russia from opening new fronts.

UPDATE 1406 GMT:

For the fourth day in a row (see Original Entry), Russia has inflicted mass casualties on civilians in and near Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv.

Guided bombs injured at least seven people in the Kyivskyi district of the city. Attacks set fire to garages and damaged windows of the surrounding house, heating infrastructure, and a sports facility.

At least one person was wounded by a aerial bomb on the village of Ruska Lozova.

UPDATE 1400 GMT:

Amid the Kremlin’s purge of military commanders and Defense Ministry officials, a deputy commander of Russia’s Leningrad military district has been detained on suspicion of accepting a bribe of 20 million roubles ($224,000),

Russia’s Investigative Committee said Maj. Gen. Valery Muminjanov took the bribe to help several companies win contracts to provide the military with clothes.

Mumindzhanov’s arrest is the sixth since the spring of a commander or official connected to Sergey Shoygu, the Defense Minister who was moved to Secretary of the State Security Council in May.

Member Login

UPDATE 1133 GMT:

Russia has extingushed a fire, set by a Ukrainian drone attack, at an oil depot after more than two weeks.

The facility, just outside the town of Proletarsk in the Rostov region in southwest Russia, was struck on August 18.

Ukraine carried out its largest assault on Russian oil and other infrastructure over the weekend, launching more than 150 drones.

UPDATE 1033 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has commented on Russia’s missile strike on a mosque in Kyiv.

UPDATE 0713 GMT:

The Ukraine military says air defenses downed 22 of 35 Russian missiles and 20 of 23 Iran-type drones launched overnight.

Nine ballistic missiles and 13 cruise missiles were destroyed ver the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

UPDATE 0637 GMT:

A Russian missile has struck an educational facility, with a center for social and psychological rehabilitation of children and an orphanage, in Sumy in northern Ukraine.

Eighteen people, including six children, have been injured.

UPDATE 0614 GMT:

Five civilians were killed and 11 injured in Russian attacks on the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Sunday.

Four of the fatalities were in Kurakhove and one in Petrivka.

UPDATE 0611 GMT:

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is under Russian attack this morning.

Several waves of explosions were heard shortly after an air alert sounded at around 5:30 a.m. Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said Russia is using cruise and ballistic missiles.

Emergency services have been called to four districts including Sviatoshynskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi with falling debris damaging non-residential buildings and cars.

At least two people are injured, including a man who has been hospitalized.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: At least 47 people, including seven children, have been injured in yet another Russian attack on Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv.

On Friday, at least seven civilians, including a 14-year-old girl, were slain in Russian bombing of a 12-story residential building and a playground in Kharkiv. Another 97, including 22 children, were wounded.

As the city mourned on Saturday, two women were killed by a Russian guided bomb on a nearby village. Ten more civilians, including children, were injured.

On Sunday, at around 1 p.m., the first explosions were heard in the Saltivskyi and Nemyshlianskyi districts of Kharkiv city. Within an hour, Iskander-M ballistic missiles struck, 22 people were injured in Saltivskyi and six in Nemyshlianskyi. Two people are in serious condition.

Later in the day, two children and two medics were among further casualties in Saltivskyi.

Kharkiv’s Palace of Sports was destroyed. Victims may be under rubble, said Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

A shopping center, a sports facility, and residential buildings were damaged. Energy infrastructure was also attacked.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy posted:

Russia is once again terrorizing Kharkiv, striking civilian infrastructure and the city itself. To stop this terror, all necessary global forces must be mobilized.

And all the necessary means worldwide should be involved to stop this terror. This requires not extraordinary means, but sufficient courage of the leaders — the courage to give Ukraine everything it needs to defend itself.