VIDEO: Kharkiv Residents Report Powerful Explosion

Kharkiv residents are reporting a powerful explosion. This information was published by НТВ, which also released a video of the incident.

It is noteworthy that Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that Ukrainian military personnel take control of the government.

“It seems it will be easier for us to negotiate than with those drug addicts and neo-Nazis who have taken the entire Ukrainian people hostage in Kyiv,” he stated.

The Russian leader also called on Ukrainian soldiers not to allow radicals to use peaceful citizens as human shields.