Nearly a thousand buildings destroyed in Kharkiv - emergency services

Nearly a thousand buildings destroyed in Kharkiv

More now on the situation in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been under Russian attack.

Qazet.az reports that almost a thousand buildings have been destroyed there as a result of Russian shelling, Ukraine's state emergency service has said.

Russian forces have been relentlessly shelling Kharkiv, which lies just 30 miles (50km) from the border with Russia, for more than three weeks.