In Kharkiv, as a result of Russian shelling and airstrikes, 1,177 multi-apartment residential buildings have already been destroyed.

Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov announced this at a briefing on March 2, Ukrinform reports..

" These are not just individual houses, but entire microdistricts. Residents are being bombarded. To date, 1,410 objects have been destroyed in the city, of which 1,177 are multi-storey residential buildings,"

According to Terekhov, 53 kindergartens, 69 schools and 15 hospitals were also destroyed in the city..

At the same time, the authorities are now forced to relocate people to schools and kindergartens, to basements, at metro stations, the mayor noted..

He added that volunteers, risking their lives, deliver food to the shelters of those areas where shelling does not stop at all..

Public utilities are also working under shelling, including 104 garbage collection vehicles on March 28..

According to Terekhov, there are supermarkets in the city, and all essential products are available.. Kharkiv also receives humanitarian aid from other cities, humanitarian aid began to arrive from America: the city of Chicago sent medicines for 880 thousand. Doll. , which were divided into city hospitals and a military hospital.

Also, the mayor noted that the spirit of unity and struggle reigns in Kharkiv, residents have radically changed their attitude towards the aggressor country.

" And always the city of Kharkov was considered more or less loyal to the Russian Federation. Today, the attitude towards Russia, the aggressor, the aggressor troops has changed dramatically.

I interact with people every day. People never in a nightmare could imagine that Russia would attack Ukraine, attack the city of Kharkov. Today, each of us is ready to defend the city to the end. Kharkov is one. We have an extraordinary spirit - the spirit of confrontation, the spirit of struggle and the spirit of victory,"