A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, on Friday night left seven people dead and at least ten injured, according to authorities.
A Russian night-time attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, killed seven people and wounded almost a dozen, Kyiv said Saturday.
The northeastern city — 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Russian border — has seen increased deadly attacks in recent months as Moscow’s invasion drags on for more than two years.
Authorities said the strike hit just after midnight.
“At about 12:20 AM, the Russian armed forces launched missile attacks on the residential Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv,” the prosecutor’s office said.
It said “high-rise buildings, administrative buildings, dormitories, a kindergarten, shops, cafes, and cars were damaged.”
Kharkiv police said Moscow fired two S-300 missiles at the city and then attacked with drones during rescue operations.
‘Repeated Shelling’
“At night, the Russians attacked Kharkiv with S-300. On a city that is sleeping,” Volodymyr Tymoshko of the local police force said on social media.
He said Russia then used “the practice of repeated shelling.”
“When all relevant services were working at the site of the missile hit, enemy drones arrived,” he said, adding that the air defense was downed then.
Local officials earlier said that the seven dead were killed by the drones.
Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said Russia attacked “while Kharkiv residents were sleeping peacefully.”
He said “nine residential buildings” were damaged, as well as “two kindergartens, two schools,” and “several dozen shops.”
Police added that there were no casualties in a separate attack on Mala Danylivka, a village on Kharkiv’s northwest outskirts.
Photos released by police on Telegram showed several fires in civilian areas, including near a high-rise apartment building.
The attack came as Ukraine’s air force reported multiple groups of Russian drones across the country.
With AFP
