Help from the US will be crucial.
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov told British newspaper The Guardian that Russia has changed its tactics and is now trying to destroy the city’s power supply and terrorize its 1.3 million residents by shelling residential areas.
According to his assessment, the Russian army does not have the resources to capture the city in the short term, so they decided to simply make it uninhabitable by constant shelling, provoking mass evacuation of residents.
The $60 billion military aid package currently blocked in the U.S. Congress is crucial, Terekhov believes.
“We need this support to prevent Kharkiv from becoming another Aleppo,” Terekhov said, referring to the Syrian city, which 19 years ago was bombed by Russian and Syrian government forces at the height of the civil war and was almost completely destroyed.
