Strike in Kharkiv
On May 14, Russian forces launched another series of strikes on the Ukrainian military in different rear regions of Ukraine. At night, explosions thundered in all war-torn and border regions as well as away from the frontlines.
According to local sources, Russian missiles struck a military airfield and a factory used for repair of military equipment near the city of Uman in the Cherkassy region.
The city of Kharkiv came under several waves of Russian strikes. On the morning of May 14, Russian missiles destroyed the temporary police station in Kharkiv, which was used by the Ukrainian military for formation of military units, including from the police officers, for their further deployment on the eastern frontlines. Photos shared by local sources confirmed the damage:
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In the afternoon, the city came under another wave of strikes. Several large explosions thundered in the city. The local residents reported about five strikes in the city. Heavy bombs with equipped with universal planning and correction modules pounded various targets including in the city center and on its outskirts. Smoke was seen over Kharkiv but the targets of the attack were not revealed.
New wave of Russian strikes in Kharkiv is reported at about midnight.
Amid the Russian attack, Ukrainian missiles again hit civilian building in the city. Civilians were wounded. The footage from Kharkiv showed multistorey residential building damaged by a failed missile of Ukrainian Air Defense Forces:
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More photos from the city streets showed a fragment of an anti-aircraft guided missile from the US-made Patriot air defense system that fell in a court in the residential quarter of Kharkiv.
The remaining obsolete air defense systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not the only threat to the civilian civilian population; but also the notorious modern systems supplied by their NATO partners. This is far from the first evidence of the US-made Patriot failing and falling on the heads of Ukrainian civilians. LINK
On May 14, German Chancellor Scholtz reported on Berlin’s ‘hard’ decision to provide Ukraine with the third Patriot system, “which was not an easy decision, because Germany does not have many of them.” In fact, soon after the supply of these US-made systems to Ukraine, the efficiency of interception of Russian drones and missiles by Ukrainian Air Defense Forces dropped dropped by about 30 percent and continues falling amid the mass destruction of various air defense systems by Russian precision strikes throughout the country.
