KHARKIV (Ukraine) – Debris was piled up on a street in Kharkiv. Blood stained the ground, and bodies from people who had been evacuated were covered with blankets.

Some of those who survived the Russian military barrage sat still, looking at the destruction. According to a Reuters witness, others helped to rescue workers search for dead or alive bodies in the rubble.

Scenes in Ukraine’s second largest city were an example of some of the violence in Ukraine.

The outskirts west of capital Kyiv have been under missile and shell attack. However, Kharkiv’s fate has fared worse. It is close geographically to Russia and culture.

Officials on Wednesday reported that at least 21 deaths and 112 injuries have occurred in this strategic city in eastern Ukraine, just a few kilometers (miles), from Russia’s border along major routes north-south and west.

Later that day, they reported another four deaths and nine injuries as rocket and air attacks continued. Despite being under siege Kharkiv is not yet surrendered to Russian forces.

Disbelief and anger mixed in the apartment block’s badly damaged apartments.

They bombed the residence and hit it with rockets. Many civilians died. Vitaly Rybas, an area resident said that he has videos showing at least four people who were killed lying on the ground.

“A dead person is lying next to me. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei (Lavrov) and Russian President Vladimir (Putin) are…bandits. These people should be tried.”

There were bloodstains on the roads as workers sorted through the debris. Two bodies were rescued by volunteers and firemen from the burning stairwells in an apartment block. Many people looked into the bombed-out craters.

Svetlana (who did not specify her surname) said, “The Russians have been shelling us.” “We’re all afraid. We are all scared. “We are just ordinary people.”

“ATROCITY” AGAINST CIVILIANS

Officials from Ukraine shared footage that shows the Russian invasion in its early stages. It showed the destruction or disabling of Russian military vehicles, as well the corpse of a soldier.

Reuters couldn’t verify the images independent of Reuters.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, stated Tuesday that attacks on Kharkiv were state terror and that Russia was the main target of the attack on Kharkiv.

Many Western nations have expressed dismay at Russia’s incursion in Ukraine. However, they believe that economic sanctions against Moscow will stop Moscow from pursuing what it calls “special operations” to expel its foes in Kyiv.

This week’s events in Kharkiv have attracted special criticism. The city is home to 1.5 million people. Boris Johnson, British Prime Minster, stated that these scenes were similar to the Serbian bombings of Sarajevo in 1990.

On Tuesday, he said at a news conference held in Estonia that he felt it was an act of violence against civilian centres.

An earlier attack by Russian forces on the city’s historic center – Ukraine’s first capital after its subsumption into the Soviet Union in World War One – struck the building that houses the regional administration, located centrally at Freedom Square.

Numerous people died when the massive blast destroyed the Soviet-era, imposing structure. Cars were crushed by the falling mortar in nearby streets. A damaged shop was surrounded by a Russian and Ukrainian flag.