It was the second time in less than a week that city officials reported a public building where residents had taken shelter coming under attack.
with more than 1,300 believed to be inside on Wednesday, local officials said.
In major cities across Ukraine, hundreds of men, women and children have been killed in Russian bombardments, while millions of civilians have raced to underground shelters or fled the country. The British Defense Ministry said Russia's failure to gain control of the skies over Ukraine"has significantly blunted their operational progress," forcing them to rely on stand-off weapons launched from the relative safety of Russian airspace.
Unexpectedly strong Ukrainian resistance has dashed Russian President Vladimir Putin's hopes for a fast victory after he ordered his troops to invade Ukraine on February 24. Russia would need 800,000 troops — almost equal to its entire active-duty military — to control Ukraine in the face of prolonged armed opposition, according to Michael Clarke, former head of the British-based Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank.
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