KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv that hit high-rise residence buildings, leaving no less than 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime assault, authorities stated.
The bombs fell Saturday night time on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the middle of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian metropolis, native Gov. Oleh Syniehubov stated. Residential buildings sustained various levels of injury, together with 16- and nine-story buildings, he added. Kharkiv’s metropolis council stated that 18 buildings had been broken.
The wounded included an 8-year-old baby, in line with Syniehubov and Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov. Terekhov stated that 60 residents had been evacuated from one of many buildings, a high-rise that was hit immediately.
Kharkiv has been a frequent goal of Russian assaults since Moscow launched its all-out invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. On late Friday, 15 individuals, together with kids ages 10 and 12, had been wounded when Russian airstrikes hit three Kharkiv neighborhoods, Terekhov stated.
Ukrainian officers stated that KAB-type aerial glide bombs — a retrofitted Soviet weapon that has for months laid waste to jap Ukraine — had been utilized in each assaults.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strike and urged Kyiv’s Western allies to ship extra weapons to assist it “shield lives and guarantee security.”
“Ukraine wants full long-range capabilities, and we’re working to persuade our companions of this,” Zelenskyy stated on X, as he ready to kick off a busy week in the US shoring up assist for Kyiv within the struggle.
And Ukrainian Protection Minister Rustem Umerov stated Sunday that Kyiv was in talks with companions in Europe to safe Swedish-made Gripen and European Eurofighter Storm jets. Umerov stated that commitments had been already in place for deliveries of U.S.-made F-16s and French Mirages.
Russia additionally launched 80 Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukraine in a single day into Sunday, the Ukrainian air power stated. Ukrainian defenses shot down 71 drones, and one other six had been misplaced on location due to digital warfare countermeasures, the assertion stated.
Farther south, a 12-year-old woman and a girl died after a Russian drone struck a passenger automobile within the metropolis of Nikopol, native Gov. Serhii Lysak reported. Two others, together with a 4-year-old baby, suffered wounds.
Within the jap Donetsk area, a Russian airstrike on Sunday morning struck properties within the metropolis of Sloviansk, trapping a girl below rubble and wounding two of her neighbors, regional prosecutors reported.
In the identical province, two miners died and one different particular person was injured late Saturday after Russian forces shelled a mine west of the town of Pokrovsk, native Gov. Vadym Filashkin and Ukraine’s Vitality Ministry reported.
Pokrovsk and Sloviansk have each been key targets for Russian forces as they proceed their grinding push westwards aimed toward capturing the whole thing of Ukraine’s industrial east.
In southern Ukraine, a Russian drone strike on Sunday morning wounded two civilians within the metropolis of Kherson, regional authorities stated. Hours later, police reported that Russian assaults wounded no less than 4 extra individuals elsewhere within the province.
Different Russian drone assaults Sunday broken power infrastructure in Ukraine’s central Poltava area and the northern metropolis of Shostka, officers reported.
Shostka lies within the Sumy area, throughout the border from Russia’s Kursk province — the goal of a startling Ukrainian army incursion launched final month. Weeks into the incursion, Zelenskyy stated that the intention is to create a buffer zone to stop additional Russian cross-border strikes which have for months wreaked havoc in Sumy.
Round 10,000 residents have left the close by city of Hlukhiv due to intensified Russian shelling, round a 3rd of its prewar inhabitants, the native army administration stated Sunday.
That features virtually 70% of the city’s kids, following the regional authorities’s calls to evacuate elements of the Sumy area nearest the Russian border. Hlukhiv lies lower than 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Russian territory, and about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Shostka.
Additionally on Sunday, firefighter was killed and two others had been injured by a Ukrainian drone within the Russia-occupied Luhansk province in jap Ukraine, the Russian Emergencies Ministry stated.
In Russia correct, within the Belgorod area bordering Ukraine, Ukrainian shelling wounded 10 individuals together with a village official and members of a volunteer self-defense power, in line with regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov.
A number of Russian areas, together with Belgorod within the south, arrange so-called territorial protection models to counter sabotage exercise after Russian troops moved into Ukraine in February 2022.