A Russian drone attack on the night of Friday to Saturday on Kharkiv left six people dead and at least ten injured, according to the emergency services and the city’s mayor. This attack occurred after the Ukrainian Air Force reported the presence of several Russian drones across the country.
A Russian drone attack overnight from Friday to Saturday on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, left six people dead and at least ten injured, according to emergency services and the city’s mayor. “There are six dead and ten injured following the night attack on the Shevchenkivskyi district,” a neighborhood located in the north of the city of Kharkiv, Mayor Igor Terekhov said in a message on Telegram on Saturday. .
According to the latter, the attack was carried out with Iranian-made drones, damaging at least nine residential buildings and a gas station. Among the injured are a “23-year-old boy (…) the youngest victim”, “a 25-year-old woman and another 71-year-old”, as well as “six men aged between 35 and 85”, a regional governor Oleg Synegubov reported on Telegram. In a previous report, Mr. Synegoubov indicated that two men had been killed in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
Several Russian drones across the country
Fires also broke out in several populated areas of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, according to photos posted by police on Telegram. Another attack targeted a village west of Kharkiv overnight from Friday to Saturday, but no casualties were reported, according to police. The deadly attack on Kharkiv came after the Ukrainian air force reported the presence of several Russian drones across the country.