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Russian Forces Attack Ukraine’s Second-Largest City Kharkiv

HeadlineOct 14, 2025

Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv with guided bombs overnight Monday, plunging 30,000 customers into darkness after targeting power transmission lines. Four people were injured when three of the bombs struck a hospital.

Natalia Nikityuk: “The first strike was somewhere farther away, and the second, it was very loud. The door flew out. My window burst open. I’m just lucky that I have a ward on the other side. I just sat down, very scared. My heart ached. Not all the wards were fully occupied, but there were people there who suffered from glass injuries because the windows blew out.”

Russia’s latest attack comes as the International Atomic Energy Agency is pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to local ceasefires in order to restore electricity to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia power plant, Europe’s largest nuclear facility. The plant has been operating on backup diesel generators since September 23 after fighting severed power lines, leaving it vulnerable to a nuclear disaster. It’s the 10th time — and by far the longest — the plant has lost outside power.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced plans to meet President Trump at the White House on Friday as he seeks additional weapons, including long-range Tomahawk missiles. 

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