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Russian shelling struck multiple buildings in Kharkiv on Friday, leaving one person dead and 11 others injured. The shelling destroyed a six-story building, which served as an educational institution according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. One person was buried in the pile of rubble and debris. Two nearby residential buildings were also damaged, officials said. At least one person was killed after the remains of a damaged missile struck a residential building in Kyiv on Friday morning. Four people were wounded in the incident, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. Approximately 98 people were evacuated and 12 people were rescued after the five-story building caught on fire.One dead, 11 injured after Russian shelling strikes buildings in Kharkiv
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One dead, 4 wounded after missile falls on Kyiv building
By Alec Gearty 
LVIV - Several missiles have hit an aircraft repair plant in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday morning, destroying its building, city mayor Andriy Sadovy said.
The plant had been stopped and there were no casualties from the strike, he said.
Separately, Ukraine's military said the plant was struck by cruise missiles launched from the direction of the Black Sea.
The type of the missile was likely Kh-555, the military said, which are launched from heavy strategic bombers. Similar missiles struck the Yavoriv military base in western Ukraine on Sunday.
LVIV - Russian missiles struck an area near the airport of Ukraine's western city of Lviv on Friday, its mayor Andriy Sadovy said, though he added that the airport itself had not been attacked.
Authorities are assessing the situation and will issue updates, he said.
Earlier, television station Ukraine 24 said at least three explosions had been heard in the city.
Russian forces largely bogged down outside major cities in Ukraine have turned to shelling them from a distance, including dozens of confirmed attacks on health facilities during the war that on Thursday entered its fourth week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nighttime video address to the nation that he is thankful to U.S. President Joe Biden for additional military aid but won’t say specifically what the new package includes because he doesn’t want to tip off Russia.
Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven leading economies said in a joint statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin is conducting an “unprovoked and shameful war.”
The fighting has led more than 3 million people to flee Ukraine, the U.N. estimates. The death toll remains unknown, though Ukraine has said thousands of civilians have died.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made an impassioned online plea to Russians Thursday, urging them to ignore the war “propaganda” spewed by the Kremlin and “spread truth” about the bleak reality of the unprovoked attack on Ukraine.
In a nine-minute long video clip meant to slip through strict Moscow censors, Schwarzenegger, 74, also invoked his father’s experience fighting with the Nazis in World War II after the annexation of Austria — telling Russians his dad was “pumped up on the lies of his government” and lived the rest of his life in “guilt” and “pain.”
The one-time Mr. Universe began by talking about his reverence for the Russian people, cemented when he met world champion weightlifter Yuri Petrovich Vlasov at the age of 14.
Schwarzenegger told viewers that Moscow was lying to both the Russian public and troops about their mission to “denazify” Ukraine.
LVIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was thankful to US President Joe Biden for the additional military aid but said he would not say specifically what the new package included because he didn’t want to tip off Russia.
“This is our defense,” he said in his nighttime video address to the nation. “When the enemy doesn’t know what to expect from us. As they didn’t know what awaited them after Feb. 24,” the day Russia invaded. “They didn’t know what we had for defense or how we prepared to meet the blow.”
Zelensky said Russia expected to find Ukraine much as it did in 2014, when it seized Crimea without a fight and backed separatists as they took control of the eastern Donbas region. But Ukraine is now a different country, with much stronger defenses, he said.
He said it also was not the time to reveal Ukraine’s tactics in the ongoing negotiations with Russia. “Working more in silence than on television, radio or on Facebook,” Zelensky said. “I consider it the right way.”
Russian warships were spotted passing through a strait in Japan this week – and they were possibly carrying troops and military equipment to Ukraine, a report said.
The four Russian tank landing ships were spotted passing through the Tsugaru Strait, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, according to Kyodo News.
The first two ships were seen Tuesday night and the other pair were spotted Wednesday morning.
The Tsugaru Strait is about 440 miles east of the Russian city of Vladivostok.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya on Thursday directly addressed Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia about the Russian killing of innocent women and children in Ukraine.
"Ambassador, do the eyes of Ukrainian children, women, and elderly killed by the Russians flash before you?" Kyslytsya asked at a Security Council meeting, according to CNN.
"If they do, we may consider how to sponsor a decision to help you deal with perpetration-inducted traumatic stress,” Kyslytsya continued, the report said.
“But now, have some decency and stop the egregious manipulation of the Security Council. It is obscene."
Nebenzia, who did not respond to Kyslytsya, said after the meeting that he does not "engage in personal exchanges" with his Ukrainian counterpart.
"But when he asked about the eyes of children killed, I would also like to ask him whether he had any remorse when he thought about the children of Donetsk that were killed by Ukrainian forces," he added.
Koch Industries plans to maintain its business operations in Russia, breaking with other companies that hastily exited the country following the Kremlin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the company confirmed this week.
GOP megadonor Charles Koch’s Kansas-based firm said it will continue operating two industrial glass factories in Russia owned by its subsidiary, Guardian Industries.
Koch Industries COO Dave Robertson defended the firm’s decision in a lengthy statement – arguing Russia would nationalize both facilities if it left.
“While Guardian’s business in Russia is a very small part of Koch, we will not walk away from our employees there or hand over these manufacturing facilities to the Russian government so it can operate and benefit from them,” Robertson said. “Doing so would only put our employees there at greater risk and do more harm than good.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin made chilling remarks Wednesday, calling for the “self-purification” of the country and likening the West to Nazi Germany.
“The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths,” Putin said in a transcript published in English by the Kremlin.
“I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges.”
Putin continued by saying Ukraine is “acting like the Nazis did,” claiming with no evidence that it is bombing its own people. He also said the West is trying to “cancel” Russia.
The House of Representatives passed legislation revoking normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus on Thursday, sending the latest effort by Congress to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine to the Senate.
The bill, which was introduced by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas), easily passed by a vote of 424-8.
Eight Republicans provided the dissenting votes: Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, Chip Roy of Texas, Dan Bishop of North Carolina and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
The bill would give President Biden authority to increase tariffs on products from Russia and Belarus until the start of 2024 and require the US Trade Representative to seek the suspension of Russia’s participation in the World Trade Organization, as well as stop Belarus from joining the group.
