War comes home: Russia opened a new destructive phase, and Ukraine is responding with strikes deep inside Russian territory

Mass attacks on Kharkiv, Odesa and other Ukrainian cities, followed by the deaths of civilians in Nizhnekamsk, show how Russia’s invasion is turning into a war of attrition in which distance from the front no longer guarantees safety. In the early hours of 9 August, residents of Kharkiv’s Saltivka district were once again woken by explosions. The strikes hit two neighbouring apartment blocks. The upper floors of one building were d...

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