In Ukraine, two people were killed and more than 30 others injured Tuesday as Russian warplanes bombed Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Survivors say the attack came almost without warning.
Nataliia Khudoba: “I heard that something was flying through the air. I grabbed my child to run away toward a pit behind the building. I sat down and protected her like this, and I heard a shattering sound, and glass shards were everywhere.”
On Monday, Ukraine’s military said it had struck a major oil terminal in the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula. Meanwhile, Russia used a hypersonic missile to strike a major air base in western Ukraine and attacked two civilian cargo ships in the Black Sea grain export hub of Odesa.
On Tuesday, the White House said President Joe Biden would skip a planned four-day trip to Germany to respond to Hurricane Milton. Biden had been expected to attend a summit with Western leaders at the U.S. air base in Ramstein to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called victory plan.