Situation in city is extremely saddening – Dutch PM on Russia’s strikes on Kharkiv

Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister. Photo: Getty Images

Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, has said that he is very “saddened” by the fact that Russia is destroying the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Source: The Guardian quoted the Dutch leader’s statement before the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels, European Pravda reports

Details: Asked what he thought about the words of the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, that it risks becoming a “second Aleppo”, Rutte said that the situation is “extremely saddening”.

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“I was in Kharkiv myself on the 1 of March. A rocket from Russia takes one minute to get there and .. the alarm systems take more time to go off than the time it takes for that particular rocket to reach Kharkiv,” he said. 

Rutte said he was impressed when he saw teachers conducting classes at metro stations and “how they try to run that system as normal as possible”

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