Kyiv:
A nighttime Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killed six people and injured 10 others, the state emergency service and the city’s mayor said on Saturday.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said in a Telegram post that “the enemy attack resulted in the death of 6 people and at least 10 injuries.”
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov published the same death and injury toll in a Telegram post, adding that the attack targeted Shevchenkiskiy in the city’s northern district (Shevchenkivskyi).
Terekhov said the attack was carried out by an Iranian-made drone and hit at least nine high-rise buildings, three dormitories and a gas station.
The region’s governor, Oleg Synegubov, said two men had been killed earlier in Shevchenkievsky.
Police confirmed the deaths and said eight other people were hospitalized with “explosion and shrapnel injuries.”
“Among the injured are two women aged between 25 and 52 years old, and six men aged between 23 and 76 years old,” police said.
Another attack in the village of Maladanilivka on the northwest outskirts of Kharkiv caused no casualties, police added.
Photos posted by police on Telegram showed multiple fires breaking out in civilian areas, including near a high-rise apartment building.
Authorities said multiple buildings were damaged in the attack, including residential areas and a gas station.
The attack came as the Ukrainian air force reported multiple groups of Russian drones across the country.
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