Updated On: 02 March, 2022 10:27 PM IST | Kharkiv | PTI
`Kharkiv today is the Stalingrad of the 21st century,` said Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Firefighters work to contain a fire at the Economy Department building of Karazin Kharkiv National University, hit during recent shelling by Russia, in Kharkiv on Wednesday. Pic/ AFP
A Ukrainian official says the advance of Russian troops in Kharkiv has been stopped, but that Russians have responded by shelling the city with heavy rocket launchers and air attacks.
"Kharkiv today is the Stalingrad of the 21st century," said Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.