TOKYO, April 24 -- NHK World issued the following news:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian forces had struck and destroyed a television tower in the country's second-largest city of Kharkiv.
Zelenskyy made the announcement in a video address on Monday.
Reuters news agency reported that a Russian missile broke the 240-meter tower in half. It says footage showed the main mast of the tower breaking off and falling to the ground.
Private facilities and infrastructure in the eastern Ukrainian city have been struck by a series of missiles and drone attacks by Russian forces.
The Institute for the Study of War, a US think tank, said the Kremlin is "conducting a concerted air and information operation to destroy Khar...