An eyewitness told “Reuters” by telephone that a state of panic prevailed in the city, with many trying to leave it amid hearing explosions and sirens.
The witness, who asked not to be named, added that the windows of his apartment shook from the force of the explosions.
Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine after the capital Kiev, is at the heart of the Russian military operation, as it is 35 kilometers from the border with Russia.
And the “Ukrainska Pravda” news website quoted an official of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, as saying that the Ukrainian military command centers in Kharkiv and Kiev were subjected to missile attacks.
The border guards also said that columns of the Russian army crossed the Ukrainian border into the Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Lugansk regions, in the east of the country.
