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Huge 500kg Unexploded Bomb Removed From Kharkiv After It Landed In Apartment Block

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Published 14:47 24 Jun 2022 GMT+1

Huge 500kg Unexploded Bomb Removed From Kharkiv After It Landed In Apartment Block

The bomb was deactivated after being launched by Russian forces

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

Featured Image Credit: Associated Press

Topics: Ukraine, Russia, World News

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is UNILAD Editorial Lead at LADbible Group. She first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route - before graduating with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University. Emily joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features. She went on to become Community Desk Lead, commissioning and writing human interest stories from across the globe, before moving to the role of Editorial Lead. Emily now works alongside the UNILAD Editor to ensure the page delivers accurate, interesting and high quality content.

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A 500kg unexploded bomb has been removed an apartment building in Kharkiv after being launched by Russian forces targeting Ukraine.

The huge explosive was deactivated in March after it first landed in Ukraine's second-largest city, but relentless airstrikes in the area have made it difficult to remove until Thursday (23 June).

Footage shared online showed Ukrainian authorities slowly winching the bomb out of the apartment building with a crane.

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See the bomb removal in progress here:

The explosive was carefully placed into a large, heavily fortified truck featuring with the word 'demining' before being taken away from the scene.

It took a 10-person specialist crew to dislodge the bomb from the nine-storey building where it had landed after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of the neighbouring country.

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One of the crew members who helped remove the device said the city 'being calm' offered an opportunity for the team to tackle the bomb, The Independent reports.

The removal came after Kharkiv was targeted with more airstrikes on Tuesday and Wednesday, marking the worst attack in weeks in the area, with 20 people thought to have died as a result.

War has raged in Ukraine for four months.
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Authorities in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, suggested the strikes came as part of a plan to force the country to pull resources from the main battlefields in the Donbas.

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In a post on Telegram, Oleh Synehubov, governor of Kharkiv region, wrote: “There is no letup in the shelling of civilians by the Russian occupiers. This is evidence that we cannot expect the same scenario as in Chernihiv or Kyiv, with Russian forces withdrawing under pressure.”

The shelling came just as normal life had been returning to Kharkiv after Ukraine pushed Russian forces back in a counter-offensive last month.

The Kharkiv region faced further strikes this week.
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Speaking to Reuters after the latest attacks, Kharkiv prosecutor Mikhailo Martosh said: "It was shelling by Russian troops. It was probably multiple rocket launchers. And it's the missile impact, it's all the missile impact."

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An 85-year-old World War II survivor is among those to have been killed by the airstrikes earlier this week, with her grandson, Mykyta, commenting: "She survived one war, but didn't make it through this one. There is nowhere to flee to. Especially grandmother herself, she didn't want to go anywhere from here."

Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has suggested Russian forces are hitting Ukraine's second-biggest city 'in the same way that they previously were hitting Mariupol', with the aim of 'terrorising the population'.

If you would like to donate to the Red Cross Emergency Appeal, which will help provide food, medicines and basic medical supplies, shelter and water to those in Ukraine, click here for more information.

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