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Scores of people were killed or wounded when an aerial bomb hit a large store in the city of Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, according to local officials. The airstrike caused a huge fire to break out, with huge plumes of smoke seen filling the sky in social media footage. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 200 people could have been inside the store. A second bomb hit the city’s central park, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Zelenskyy called the airstrike “a manifestation of Russian madness”, and appealed to Western countries to provide Ukraine with air defence systems. “W…

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