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In the city\u2019s Sviatoshynsky district, an older man stood on the street, shaking and crying, after watching wounded children being evacuated from one strike site. \u201cTheir entire bodies were bandaged,\u201d said the man, who declined to give his name. He struggled to say anything more.<\/p>\n
Cars caught fire on a street in one district. Mr. Klitschko wrote on the Telegram social messaging app that a warhead from one intercepted missile had landed in a resident\u2019s kitchen but did not explode.<\/p>\n
In Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second largest city, missiles killed two people and wounded at least 38, the mayor, Ihor Terekhov, wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Missiles hit at least four locations in the city, whose center is just 25 miles from the Russian border \u2014 the first strikes around 4 a.m. and another salvo three hours later, the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said in a brief interview at the site of one of the strikes.<\/p>\n
Tetiana Derevianko, who lives in the city, said she had been asleep in her ninth-floor apartment when a powerful blast jolted her awake. Her husband, Stas, was in the kitchen and was thrown against the refrigerator, an impact that split his forehead open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As blood streamed down his face, he called out to his wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cStas shouted to get up to hide behind the second wall,\u201d she said. \u201cWe lay on the floor and prayed.\u201d<\/p>\n
In those chaotic first moments, she thought their building had been hit. But they had been spared the worst: The missile struck a five-story apartment building next door, reducing it to a heap of twisted metal and concrete.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s military said its soldiers had shot down one cruise missile with a machine gun, a rare feat that could not be independently confirmed. Typically, fighter jets or ground-based antiaircraft missiles are needed to intercept cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As Russia pressed ahead with its assaults on Ukraine, NATO officials in Brussels announced on Tuesday that the military alliance had signed contracts worth $1.2 billion to buy 155-millimeter caliber artillery shells \u2014 one of the most-needed weapons on Ukraine\u2019s battlefields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The estimated 220,000 shells will not be delivered for at least two years, officials said, and will be sent to member states to refill stockpiles that have been depleted by military assistance to Ukraine. It will be up to NATO states to decide whether they can spare more for Kyiv.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia\u2019s war in Ukraine has become a battle for ammunition,\u201d said Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general.<\/p>\n
Officials did not say which ammunition producers \u2014 whether based in Europe, the United States or elsewhere \u2014 would manufacture the shells.<\/p>\n
Across Ukraine on Tuesday morning, thousands of people took shelter with their children in basements or subway stations. After the explosions in Kyiv, some rushed out to check on their homes and businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ran to try to save anything we could from our shop,\u201d said Ina Halushko, 50, the owner of a grocery store about a hundred yards from one of the sites hit in Kyiv. Its windows were shattered, she said as she pointed toward the store, but the building did not catch fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n