War in Ukraine: injured after Russian strikes in Kharkiv, Macron expected in kyiv… update on the situation

17 blessés à Kharkiv ce 17 janvier 2024. MAXPPP – YAKIV LIASHENKO

Tous les jours, Midi Libre fait le point sur la situation en Ukraine. Ce mercredi 17 janvier 2024, découvrez les dernières actualités autour de ce conflit.

17 blessés après des frappes russes à Kharkiv

Two Russian missiles struck a residential area in the center of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Tuesday, wounding 17 people and causing property damage, local officials said. Rescue teams searched the rubble for injured people.

The mayor of the city reported two "powerful explosions" and indicated that at least ten homes had been damaged. Ukrainian emergency services said on Telegram that one of the missiles hit a three-story building that previously housed a medical center.

Fires were extinguished in two buildings and residential buildings were damaged. Kharkiv police chief Volodymyr Tymochko told Ukrainian state television Suspilne that one of the missiles fell on a road.

Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehoubov said on Telegram that 17 people were injured, two of them seriously. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram that the missiles had hit “precisely where there is no military infrastructure, precisely where there are actually homes' quot;.

Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, has regularly been the target of attacks. Last week, 11 people were injured after Russian missiles hit a hotel in the city.

Macron expected in kyiv for additional help

Referring to the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron declared that he would go to Kiev next month in order to finalize a bilateral security agreement intended to help the Ukrainian authorities strengthen its capabilities of defense against Russia, whose offensive launched in February 2022 is denounced as an "invasion" by Ukraine's Western allies.

Around forty long-range Scalp missiles and hundreds of bombs will be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks, he said, as Kiev urges its allies to not to waver in their support and that political wrangling in Washington casts a shadow over additional American aid.