ANALYSIS: Kharkiv Pounded — Guided Bombs on 40 Houses, 9 Injured Including 4 Children

Introduction: Ukraine's second city under bombardment, once again

A night of terror in the Kholodnohirskyi district

In the night of June 18-19, 2026, around 3:30 AM Kyiv time, the Russian army dropped guided aerial bombs — the notorious KAB, or satellite-corrected bombs — on the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest metropolis. The initial toll reports nine injured, including four children, and more than forty private houses damaged, as well as a partially destroyed warehouse. Human remains were found under the rubble during search and rescue operations, confirming at least one fatal victim.

The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, confirmed the attack during the night via his Telegram channel: "Injuries are reported following the guided bomb strike on the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv. The number of victims and their condition are being confirmed." Emergency services worked all morning to contain the fire triggered by the explosions and assess the extent of the destruction. The Kholodnohirskyi district, a purely residential area, contains no known military objectives — this is a crucial fact in understanding Moscow's intent.

The same district hit for the second consecutive night

What makes this episode particularly chilling is the repetition. In the night of June 19-20, 2026, Russian forces once again targeted the same Kholodnohirskyi district, this time with a direct hit on a two-story residential building. The toll then rose to nine additional injuries, including a six-year-old child, with five hospitalizations. One victim was found under the debris. Two consecutive nights, same target, same method: this is not a coincidence, it is a signature.

The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synehubov, specified in his June 20 report that among the injured were two men aged 60 and 49, two women aged 54 and 87, and a six-year-old child. "Five people were hospitalized, four received treatment on-site", he indicated. Behind their administrative coldness, these dry figures represent shattered lives and devastated families in the heart of a city that is simply trying to survive.

The KAB: Russia's urban terrorism weapon

Satellite-guided bombs dropped from Russian airspace

Russian guided aerial bombs — known by the acronym KAB or by the English term glide bombs — today represent one of the most devastating threats to Ukrainian cities. These devices are essentially old Soviet bombs retrofitted with satellite guidance kits and gliding wings (UMPK), allowing them to be dropped from Sukhoi fighter jets flying 50 to 70 kilometers from the target, without ever entering Ukrainian airspace. This is one of the reasons they are so difficult to intercept.

The weight of these bombs varies: FAB-500 models weigh 500 kilograms, while FAB-1500 models reach a ton and a half. When one of these charges falls on a residential neighborhood, it doesn't just destroy the targeted building — it blows out windows and roofs within a radius of several hundred meters. This is exactly what happened in Kholodnohirskyi: more than forty homes were damaged by the shockwave of one or several bombs alone. Massive destruction power against civilian targets is precisely the intended goal.

An accelerating rate of use

Data compiled by the Ukrainian General Staff reveals an alarming trend: on the single day of June 18, 2026, Russian forces launched 243 guided bombs across the entire Ukrainian theater. This figure illustrates the industrial capacity that Moscow has maintained and even increased despite Western sanctions. Armament factories are running on a war footing, fueled by oil revenues, Iranian components, and circumvention circuits developed in China and Turkey.

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) report from June 19, 2026, guided bomb strikes have intensely targeted Ukrainian rear areas, including cities like Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Kharkiv. A Ukrainian artilleryman quoted in the report indicates that Russian drone operations now complicate Ukrainian counter-battery fire: artillery crews must protect their pieces from kamikaze drones as much as they must return fire. The multi-dimensional war of Russia is gradually suffocating Ukraine's defensive capabilities.

The Kholodnohirskyi district: A recurring target, no military justification

A working-class neighborhood in the heart of a besieged city

The Kholodnohirskyi district is one of the most densely populated areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city with approximately 1.4 million inhabitants before the war. It is a predominantly residential neighborhood, composed of single-family homes, low-rise apartment buildings, and a few commercial or light industrial businesses. It is located about 40 kilometers from the Russian border, making it one of the most exposed areas in Europe. No military base, no weapons depot, and no strategic infrastructure are reported there.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, the Kholodnohirskyi district has been hit on numerous occasions. On June 15, 2026, this same sector suffered missile and drone strikes that triggered fires — and it was then that four firefighters from the 6th Fire and Rescue Detachment of Kharkiv were killed in a deliberate Russian second strike on rescue teams in the middle of their work. On June 19, new bombs. On June 20, again. Same neighborhood, same method, same terror.

Russia targets civilians: A documented reality

The Prosecutor's Office of the Kharkiv region has opened legal proceedings for crimes of war following each incident. Ukrainian authorities document everything meticulously: the time of the Air Force alert, the time the bombs were dropped, the nature of the structures hit, and the identity and age of the victims. This systematic documentation feeds the files of the International Criminal Court, which has already issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for crimes committed in Ukraine.

The operating mode is invariable: the Russians strike in the middle of the night, around 3:00 to 4:00 AM, when inhabitants are sleeping. They target dense residential areas. They often repeat strikes on the same areas within a few hours or days — the so-called «double-tap» tactic — knowing that rescue teams will be present. This is a method of codified institutional terrorism, not a blunder of war.

The human toll: Four children among the injured

Victims of the night of June 18-19

During the night of June 18-19, Governor Synehubov detailed the identified victims among the nine injured: two eleven-year-old girls and a fourteen-year-old boy suffering from acute stress reactions — a clinically documented form of post-traumatic shock — and six adults with various injuries. Mayor Terekhov himself indicated at 7:45 AM that four of the nine injured were children. These kids were sleeping in their beds when bombs tore through their neighborhood. None of them chose to be near a war border.

The following night, June 20, the toll of the second strike on the same neighborhood included a hospitalized six-year-old child, as well as an 87-year-old woman. Rescue services had to extricate survivors from the rubble of a collapsed two-story building. "Four people could still be under the rubble, including a child", Mayor Terekhov warned in the middle of the night. The identity of the deceased person found under the debris is currently being established.

The psychological cost on an already exhausted population

Beyond the physical injuries, it is the collective psychological trauma that is gnawing at Kharkiv. The city has lived under permanent air alerts for over four years. Every night, hundreds of thousands of people descend into shelters, basements, and windowless corridors. Children who have never known anything but war are growing up in this normalized terror. The acute stress reactions mentioned in official reports for the injured children are only the tip of the iceberg of a generational trauma that Ukraine will carry for decades.

Humanitarian organizations document a dramatic increase in anxiety disorders, depression, and post-traumatic stress symptoms among Ukrainian children living in combat zones. In Kharkiv, a border city, exposure to bombs and drones is almost daily. The human price of this war is counted not only in deaths and physical injuries, but in entire generations psychologically scarred by Russian state violence.

The Russian strategy of terror: Dissecting a system

The "double-tap": Striking first responders

The tactic known as the «double-tap» — hitting a target, waiting for rescue services to arrive, then striking again — has been documented since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Syria in 2015, where the Russian air force practiced it systematically against Syrian Civil Defense teams (the White Helmets). In Ukraine, the tactic has been replicated with sinister regularity. On the night of June 14-15, 2026, in Kharkiv, the Russians hit the Kholodnohirskyi district, waited for firefighters to arrive, then dropped another bomb on the same site. Four firefighters from the 6th Rescue Detachment were killed: Dmytrii Boiko, Danylo Tishchenko, Serhii Makovetskyi, and Vadym Zinchenko. Heroes armed only with fire hoses.

This tactic is not the result of a pilot's spontaneous decision. It responds to a deliberately crafted doctrine designed to maximize Ukrainian losses among civilian state personnel. The objective is twofold: to kill rescuers to paralyze the emergency response, and to terrorize the population by showing that even asking for help exposes one to death. This is pure terror logic, inscribed in the mission orders of the Russian aviation.

KABs in the airspace: Why air defense is insufficient

Ukraine has high-performance air defense systems — American Patriot, Franco-Italian SAMP/T, Norwegian NASAMS — but they are designed to intercept ballistic and cruise missiles, not glide bombs with low radar signatures launched en masse from Russian territory. On June 20, of three KABs launched at Kharkiv, air defense intercepted one. Two hit their target. This ratio cruelly illustrates the current limits of available systems in the face of saturating and diversified threats.

The solution requires systems dedicated to neutralizing glide bombs, advanced detection capabilities, and, above all, the possibility for Ukraine to strike Russian Sukhoi aircraft before they drop their loads — which implies fourth-generation Western aircraft, specifically F-16s. Western partners deliver these aircraft with usage restrictions that, from a strategic standpoint, protect the political sensitivity of donors more than the Ukrainian civilians under the bombs.

Kharkiv: The symbol-city of Ukrainian resistance

Four years of bombardment and she still stands

Kharkiv is 40 kilometers from Russia. At the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russian armored columns tried to take the city by storm. They were repelled. Kharkiv never fell. This is a massive military and moral victory whose implications are underestimated in the West. If Kharkiv had capitulated, Ukrainian morale would have been broken in the first weeks and national resistance could have collapsed. The city resisted thanks to its defenders — soldiers, militiamen, armed civilians — and at the cost of a continuous destruction of its urban fabric.

The city pays for this resistance with a permanent price: energy infrastructure destroyed and rebuilt several times, damaged schools and hospitals, museums evacuated of their collections, and tens of thousands of residents who have fled. Yet, about a million people still live in Kharkiv, continue to work there, teach there, and raise their children there. This civilian permanence in the face of terror is itself an act of resistance that one can only look upon with respect and a form of admiring amazement.

Mayor Terekhov: A voice documenting every blow

Mayor Ihor Terekhov has become a figure of Ukrainian institutional resistance. Night after night, strike after strike, he publishes meticulous updates on his Telegram: time of attack, district hit, number of victims, status of rescue operations. His communication is that of an official who refuses to let Russian bombs vanish into silence. Every report from Terekhov is an indictment. He documents a war crime in real time, for the collective memory of Ukraine and for the archives of future international jurisdictions.

His statements on the night of June 18-19 are exemplary of this method: initial alert at 3:28 AM by the Air Force, confirmation of the strike by Terekhov, a first toll of five injured then six, then nine at 7:45 AM with the clarification that four are children. This progressive increase in precision through the night follows the rhythm of survivors emerging from the rubble. It is tragedy documented live.

The war against civilians: A doctrine, not collateral damage

The Kremlin denies, evidence accumulates

Moscow has not commented on the strikes on Kharkiv on June 18-19-20, 2026. This is the immutable rule: Russia never acknowledges having deliberately targeted civilian areas. Its Ministry of Defense invariably repeats that its forces only strike "legitimate military targets" and "defense industry infrastructure". This formula, repeated hundreds of times since 2022, is now one of the best-documented lies of the conflict. The Kholodnohirskyi district contains no military installations. The forty civilian houses and the civilian warehouse hit are not military targets.

The accumulation of evidence is such — thousands of documented incidents, verified GPS coordinates, satellite analyses, testimonies — that the thesis of accidental collateral damage has become an unsustainable fiction. The International Criminal Court, the UN, and dozens of governments have established it: Russia is conducting a deliberate campaign of terrorism against Ukrainian civilian populations to break their morale and their will to resist. It is a strategy of total war against an entire people.

Historical analogy: The Blitz strategy revisited

Military historians often draw a parallel with the nazi blitz on British cities in 1940-1941. Hitler's objective was identical to Putin's: to break the morale of the civilian population by targeting their homes, their living spaces, and their cultural symbols. Coventry, Plymouth, Bristol — cities reduced to ashes to terrorize the British. The result was exactly the opposite: resistance grew stronger, national solidarity intensified. There are reasons to think the same dynamic is at work in Ukraine: every bomb on Kharkiv fuels hatred of the occupier and the resolve to resist.

But this analogy has its limits. The United Kingdom of 1940 benefited from a strategic depth — the English Channel — which Ukraine does not have. And above all, Churchill had allies who delivered weapons without operational restrictions. The Ukraine of 2026 depends on a hesitant Western coalition, timid due to the fear of an escalation that Putin masters precisely by knowing how to play on this fear. The Ukrainian blitz has lasted four years. This is untenable for a population without sufficient air defense.

Western partners: Real support, but too slow

The F-16s and the question of rules of engagement

Ukraine finally received F-16 fighters from Western partners — the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway — after months of negotiations. These aircraft have improved Ukrainian air defense capabilities, but their numbers remain limited and their rules of engagement restrictive. In particular, several donor governments initially prohibited the use of their F-16s to strike targets on Russian territory — the very place from which the Sukhois taking off to drop KABs. This restriction translates directly into bombs reaching Kharkiv without being intercepted at the source.

The military logic is nonetheless clear: to stop the guided bombs on Kharkiv, one must either intercept them in flight — which is difficult and costly in munitions — or neutralize the aircraft that drop them before takeoff or during the approach phase in Russian airspace. The second option is more effective but politically more sensitive for European capitals. The gap between military logic and the political logic of donors is paid for in Ukrainian civilian victims. That is a fact, not a judgment.

Europe facing its responsibilities

The European Union, in its response to Russian aggression, has provided considerable efforts: progressive sanctions, massive financial support, accelerating military aid. The June 2026 G7 even saw Canada impose new sanctions on 162 Russian entities in the wake of the June 15 strikes on the Kyiv Lavra. But Europe remains marked by a fundamental ambivalence: it wants Ukraine to win, but it fears an escalation that would draw it directly into the conflict. This fear of escalation is the primary psychological lever that Putin uses against the West, and he exploits it with cynical mastery.

The uncomfortable truth is this: each month of prolonged war benefits Russia demographically and industrially, provided sanctions do not tighten enough to suffocate its war economy. Ukraine, meanwhile, loses men, cities, and infrastructure. The asymmetry of attrition is real. The West must choose between helping Ukraine win quickly, with all necessary means, or witnessing a war of exhaustion whose outcome is uncertain. The injured children in Kholodnohirskyi are the visible consequence of this strategic hesitation.

The escalation of summer 2026: Kharkiv in a week of intense violence

A black week for Ukraine

The strikes of June 18-19-20, 2026, on Kharkiv do not occur in a vacuum. They are part of a week of exceptional violence across the entire Ukrainian territory. On June 14, a Russian drone hit the Kharkiv Art Museum, forcing an emergency evacuation of the collections. On the night of June 14-15, an attack of 681 vectors — drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, including six Zircon hypersonics — hit Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro simultaneously. The Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage site founded in 1051, caught fire.

Also on June 15, the four firefighters from Kharkiv were killed in a double-tap on the Kholodnohirskyi district. Five days later, the bombs returned to the same district. It is a cycle of terror maintained with method. According to Ukrainian General Staff figures from June 18, Russian forces fired 76 airstrikes and 243 guided bombs in a single day across all fronts. This rate of fire is not random: it is the product of an industrial war machine organized for total attrition.

Kharkiv in the context of the Russian summer campaign

Summer 2026 seems to mark an intensification of Russian pressure on major Ukrainian cities. Zaporizhzhia was hit by nine guided bombs on June 20, leaving at least four dead and six injured. Sumy is under repeated attacks. Kherson is taking daily artillery and drone fire. Kharkiv receives KABs two consecutive nights. The pattern is one of a multi-directional offensive simultaneously targeting military, energy, and urban infrastructure to maximize pressure on the population and Ukrainian political decision-makers.

ISW analysts note that Russian forces have not made confirmed advances in the north of the Kharkiv region during this same week, despite repeated attempts. The aerial pressure on the city would therefore also be a form of tactical compensation: unable to take Kharkiv on the ground, Moscow strives to destroy it from the air and deprive its defenders of any rear security. It is the logic of collective punishment elevated to a military strategy.

The Ukrainian response: Documentation, resilience, retaliation

Ukrainian drones strike back

While Kharkiv absorbs Russian bombs, Ukrainian forces are simultaneously conducting a campaign of deep strikes against Russian military and economic infrastructure. On the night of June 19, the 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment ("Raid") hit gas storage facilities in occupied Crimea, in the Tarkhankut region. Fires were confirmed by satellite imagery. Oil depots in Russia were hit. The Moscow refinery suffered significant damage during one of the largest Ukrainian drone operations against the Russian capital since the beginning of the war.

This Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian territory responds to a clear strategic logic: carry the war into the daily lives of Russians, force Moscow to divert resources for internal defense, and disrupt the logistical chains that fuel the war machine. It is also a political signal: Ukraine can strike far and hard, it is not solely in a defensive posture. This partial symmetry is one of the few good strategic news items for Kyiv in a particularly difficult period.

Civilian resilience in the face of the impossibility of normalcy

Despite the bombs, Kharkiv holds on. Businesses reopen after each strike. Schools, which now operate essentially in underground or remote modes, continue to teach. Hospitals provide care. Firefighters, even after losing four colleagues in one night, continue to respond to alerts. This resilience institutional is one of the most remarkable characteristics of Ukrainian society at war. It is also one of the factors explaining why Russia has not succeeded, despite four years of attempts, in breaking the Ukrainian will.

But resilience has physical and psychological limits. Studies on populations in prolonged conflict zones show a cumulative degradation of mental health, productive capacities, and social cohesion beyond a certain threshold of exposure. Kharkiv has been approaching this threshold for months. The city needs not only weapons, but certainty: the certainty that its partners will not abandon it, that Western support will not falter, that final victory is possible. That very certainty is what the bombs of June 2026 seek to erode.

The international dimension: Kharkiv on the world map

The international community condemns, Moscow continues

The strikes on Kharkiv have been condemned by Western chancelleries with the regularity of a metronome. Every major attack produces a communiqué from Washington, a statement from Brussels, a tweet from a European head of state. These condemnations have symbolic value and maintain diplomatic pressure on Moscow, but their concrete effect on Russian military behavior is zero. Russia continues to bombard precisely because it has evaluated that the political cost of condemnations is lower than the military benefit of the strikes.

The European Union adopted a new package of sanctions in June 2026 targeting the Russian shadow fleet and the defense sector. Canada imposed new restrictions on 162 entities. These measures are useful in the long term for suffocating the Russian war economy, but their impact is delayed. While sanctions produce their effects in months and years, bombs fall on Kharkiv in seconds. The temporal gap between economic punishment and military violence is one of the fundamental tragedies of the international response to this war.

The role of the United States in the equation

The American position under the Trump administration is one of maintained support but accompanied by pressure for negotiations. Washington continues to deliver munitions, weapon systems, and intelligence to Ukraine, while seeking an exit from the conflict through some form of diplomatic compromise. This ambivalence creates strategic uncertainty for Kyiv: is American support unconditional or subject to arrangements with Moscow? Putin has an interest in maintaining this ambiguity, which weakens Ukrainian confidence in its primary military partner.

Trump is a necessary evil for the West in this context: his displayed firmness toward his adversaries can deter an even broader escalation, but his unpredictability and his penchant for short-term deals legitimately worry Europeans. An Ukraine abandoned or forced into major territorial concessions would send a catastrophic signal to democracies worldwide: authoritarian regimes can win by brute force, and the West will back down to preserve its peace. This is a precedent that Europe, in particular, cannot afford.

Kharkiv and war crimes: Toward international justice

Documentation as a legal weapon

Every strike on Kharkiv is documented by Ukrainian authorities within a precise legal framework. The office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine opens criminal proceedings under Article 438 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code — war crimes — for each confirmed incident. These proceedings simultaneously feed the files transmitted to the International Criminal Court, which has jurisdiction over crimes committed in Ukraine since issuing its arrest warrant for Putin in March 2023 for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children.

The nature of the strikes on Kholodnohirskyi — a residential area without military objectives, repeated strikes on the same sectors, deliberate use of the double-tap against rescuers — potentially constitutes direct attacks against civilians within the meaning of Article 8 of the Rome Statute, a non-prescriptible war crime. GPS coordinates, timestamps, survivor testimonies, satellite imagery, and Ukrainian Air Force data form an evidentiary corpus that legal experts describe as exceptional for this type of litigation.

Obstacles to justice

The obstacles are nonetheless considerable. The ICC can only try individuals brought before it, and Putin will not be extradited as long as he is in power in Russia. Members of the Russian military command responsible for the strike orders on civilian zones are not identified by name in most indictments. And Russia, a non-member of the ICC since its withdrawal in 2016, does not recognize the jurisdiction's competence. International justice advances, but it advances on the scale of decades, not nights of bombardment.

This does not make it useless. Every arrest warrant, every UN General Assembly resolution, every commission of inquiry report contributes to the irrefutable historical documentation that wars end, regimes change, and one day those responsible will have to answer for their actions. This is what Ukrainians hope for: that the memory of Kholodnohirskyi does not fade, that the names of the injured children, the killed firefighters, and the collapsed houses are inscribed somewhere where shame will not be forgotten.

Prospective analysis: What can be expected from the summer of 2026?

Sustained escalation or a diplomatic opening?

The dynamics of summer 2026 combine two contradictory trends. On one hand, a Russian military intensification: an increased rate of strikes, massive use of KABs, simultaneous pressure on several Ukrainian cities. On the other, discreet diplomatic signals: discussions about ceasefire mechanisms are circulating in capitals, and unofficial mediators are sounding out positions. But facts on the ground contradict any optimism for an imminent truce: according to the ISW as of June 20, 2026, there is no credible sign that Russia is ready to engage in serious negotiations.

The EU representative at the diplomatic talks himself acknowledged this during a statement on June 20: «Unfortunately, the time to negotiate has not yet come.» Behind its diplomatic euphemism, this formula means that Moscow has not decided that continuing the war costs more than a negotiated peace. As long as this equation does not change — through increased military pressure from Ukraine or increased economic pressure from the West — bombs will continue to fall on Kholodnohirskyi.

Conditions for a change in dynamics

Three factors could modify the dynamics: first, a significant increase in Western weapon deliveries, specifically dedicated anti-KAB systems and long-range munitions allowing strikes on the Russian airbases from which the Sukhois take off. Second, a tightening of sanctions on exports of semiconductors and electronic components that fuel KAB production — the integrated circuits in these bombs largely come from Asian suppliers circumventing sanctions. Third, sufficient Western political cohesion to resist Moscow's pressure over time.

None of these three factors is guaranteed. But their combined absence guarantees the continuation of nights like that of June 18 in Kholodnohirskyi: families awakened by explosions, children treated for shock, firefighters risking their lives to save others, and a mayor documenting everything on Telegram before dawn. The question is not if Kharkiv will be hit again. The question is what the West will choose to do so the next bomb is the last.

Conclusion: Kholodnohirskyi, microcosm of a war for civilization

Forty houses, nine injured, a total symbol

Forty houses destroyed. Nine injured, including four children. One death discovered under the debris. A warehouse in flames. These are modest numbers in the horrific economy of this war, where thousands of soldiers die every week and entire cities have been razed. But the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv, on the night of June 18, 2026, summarizes with chilling clarity what this war is in its essence: a deliberate attack by an authoritarian state against civilians who have committed no other crime than living in a free country that this regime wants to destroy. This is not a war over borders or resources. It is a war of values and existence.

The response the West still owes

The West has responded to this aggression with sanctions, weapons, money, and declarations. It is necessary and insufficient. Insufficient because two out of three bombs still reach their target in Kharkiv. Insufficient because Ukrainian children are growing up in underground shelters instead of growing up in schools. Insufficient because the Russian war machine is still running, fueled by resources that still find paths through the sanctions. The question posed by every bomb on Kholodnohirskyi is a moral and strategic question that the democratic West must have the courage to decide: does it want Ukraine to win, or does it simply want the war to stop? These are two very different ambitions, with very different answers. And Kharkiv, night after night, waits for the answer.

Signed Maxime Marquette, columnist

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Primary sources

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Ukrainska Pravda — Human remains found under rubble after overnight Russian attack on Kharkiv — June 19, 2026

Ukrinform — In Kharkiv, 5 people injured due to guided aerial bomb attack, four more may be trapped including child — June 20, 2026

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Kyiv Independent — Russian attack damages over 40 homes in Kharkiv, injures 6 — June 19, 2026

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