The Russian army again massively struck Ukrainian civilian targets at night and on Saturday morning. In the second-largest city of Kharkiv, an aerial bomb hit the residential district of Kholodnohirskyi, killing one and injuring nine. Other injured persons are reported by the authorities from the southern Kherson region
One person was killed and nine others were injured after a Russian airstrike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, authorities there said on Saturday morning. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
- Russia hit a residential area in Kharkiv with a guided aerial bomb.
- One person died and nine others were injured in the attack on Kharkiv.
- In Kherson, a Russian drone injured a 72-year-old woman and three other civilians.
One victim is reported from Kharkiv
The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terechov, said early Saturday morning that a woman was trapped under the rubble after a residential zone was hit by a guided aerial bomb. “Unfortunately, during search and rescue operations, the body of a deceased person was found under the rubble of the destroyed building,” Terechov said in an update on the Telegram platform.
The attack on Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirsky district injured nine people, five of whom had to be hospitalized, Oleh Synehubov, the head of the regional military administration there, informed.
Injuries in Kherson
Authorities in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine also reported that a 72-year-old woman was injured in the village of Zelenivka after being hit by a Russian drone. According to official information, three other people were also injured in the Korabelny district of Kherson during drone attacks.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday morning that its air defenses shot down 187 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the entire territory of the country overnight. The latest wave of attacks comes two days after Ukraine launched its largest daytime attack on Moscow to date. It caused fires, hit an important oil refinery and forced the evacuation of the country’s largest airport, AFP reports.
