Overnight strike hits high-rise buildings and petrol station, wounding another 10 people, says mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city
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An overnight Russian drone attack on Kharkiv in Ukraine killed six people and wounded 10 others, national emergency services and the city’s mayor said on Saturday.
Igor Terekhov said the attack targeted Shevchenkivskyi, a northern area of Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Iranian-made drones carried out the attack, hitting at least nine high-rise buildings, three dormitories and a petrol station, he said on Telegram.
Police said a further eight people were hospitalised “with blast injuries and shrapnel wounds”.
More on that story shortly. In other key developments:
Russia fired five missiles on Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia on Friday, killing at least four people, injuring 20 and damaging residential buildings and industrial facilities, the regional governor said. Two journalists covering the aftermath of the strikes were among those wounded in the city, near the war’s frontline. Ivan Fedorov, the governor, said: “First there were two missile strikes, and then, about 40 minutes later, there were other strikes at the same place – just as rescuers, police started working.” Reuters TV footage showed reporters rushing to help colleagues lying injured on the ground before emergency crews arrived.
A Ukrainian drone attack targeting the Morozovsk airbase in Russia killed or injured 20 members of airfield personnel and destroyed six Russian warplanes, as well as badly damaging eight others, according to officials in Kyiv on Friday. Russian defence officials, however, claimed they intercepted more than 40 Ukrainian drones and only a power substation was damaged in the barrage.
