The top section of a giant television tower in Kharkiv has crashed to the ground after the structure was hit by a Russian missile, a Ukrainian official says. Video circulating on social media shows the moment the top of the mast broke, rotated through 180 degrees, and fell to earth. Smoke could already be seen billowing from the structure where it had apparently been struck by what Kharkiv prosecutors said was a Kh-59 cruise missile. Subsequent videos also posted on social media show the mast lying where it fell, surrounded by trees at the foot of the tower. The structure – which stood more than 240 meters high – was erected in the early 1980s, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv region military administration, said staff at the tower had been in the shelter at the time of the attack and no…
