Kharkiv risks becoming a "second Aleppo" if the US does not vote for military aid to Ukraine

Kharkiv risks becoming a "second Aleppo" if the US does not vote for military aid to Ukraine

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Kharkiv risks becoming a "second Aleppo" if the United States does not vote for new military aid to help Ukraine obtain air defense equipment to prevent long-range Russian attacks, Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said.

Russian invaders are trying to destroy the city of Kharkiv by attacking the energy supply and shelling residential areas - Kharkiv may become a "second Aleppo" if American politicians do not vote for new military aid. This was stated by Mayor Ihor Terekhov in an interview with The Guardian, UNN reports .

Kharkiv risks becoming a "second Aleppo" if U.S. politicians do not vote for new military aid to help Ukraine get the air defense equipment needed to prevent long-range Russian attacks 

- Ihor Terekhov is quoted in the British edition.

According to the mayor of Kharkiv, Russia has changed its tactics and is now trying to destroy the city's electricity supply, terrorizing the city's 1.3 million residents by shelling residential areas. Terekhov also emphasized that the $60 billion U.S. military aid package currently stalled in Congress is "crucial for us" and called on the West to focus on the war of two years ago.

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We need this support to prevent Kharkiv from becoming the second Aleppo

-  said Terekhov.

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