The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has published a fragment of an intercepted conversation of the Russian occupiers, who were tasked with "taking Kharkiv."

"There are few of us here, we were cordoned off. Now we were given the command to kill [use of abusive language in the source text] everyone, everyone in a row: civilians, children, it does not matter... kill everyone, everyone. Here is a city, in some military Ukrainian factory, destroy old equipment, nine-story buildings, anyone you see, who shines a flashlight, kill everyone... Here, mostly, they die from the wreckage," one of the interlocutors said.

He also said the occupiers are suffering heavy losses. According to him, out of 2,000 servicemen from "LPR" from 20 to 25 people left.