Russian airstrike hits Kharkiv physics institute hosting nuclear reactor

Alarming footage shows a Russian airstrike hitting a Kharkiv physics institute that hosts a nuclear reactor.

Russian forces have also shelled a psychiatric hospital near the eastern Ukrainian town of Izyum, Ukrainian regional authorities have claimed, two days after hitting a maternity hospital in Mariupol.

Oleh Synegubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said 330 people had been at the hospital and that 73 had been evacuated.

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