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The attack on the tower followed an announcement by Russia’s Defense Ministry that it would strike “objects” in Kyiv to prevent “information attacks.”

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• Television channels are likely off the air, at least temporarily, because broadcasting hardware related to the communication tower was also damaged though the lattice itself is still standing.

• The tower strike took place as a convoy of Russian tanks, stretching 40 miles, crept toward the north of Kyiv, raising fears that Russia might be trying to surround the Ukrainian capital.

• Russia’s attack on its neighbor entered its sixth day with a deadly rocket strike in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, that killed seven civilians, including three children, and raised fears that Moscow was targeting heavily populated and residential areas.

• Video of the aftermath showed a large crater in the middle of the cobblestone square.

• A missile struck the spot where Ukrainian volunteers in 2014 displayed the remains of a Russian rocket that hit the city of Kramatorsk in the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian troops have been at war with Russian-backed forces for the past eight years, the Wall Street Journal reported. “Is Kharkiv Next?” read a banner that used to stand on the spot before the Russian invasion began.

• Kharkiv, a border city whose population is mostly Russian-speaking, has put up stiff resistance to Russian advances, with reports surfacing that Ukrainian forces destroyed or captured a unit of Russian troops that entered the city over the weekend.

• Kharkiv’s mayor said there was also a rocket attack on a residential neighborhood and one that destroyed a hospital.

• On Monday, Moscow unleashed multiple-launch rocket fire against residential neighborhoods in the city, killing at least 10 civilians, including three children and their parents who were burned in a car struck by a Russian projectile, according to Ukrainian officials.

• Nearly 90 apartment buildings in Kharkiv have been damaged. Several parts of the city are without electricity, heating, or water.

• “This is not a random mistaken salvo, but a conscious extermination of people,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on national television. “The Russians knew what they were firing at.”