At least 3 killed in the most powerful attack in Russia against Kharkiv of Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine War News
The Ukrainian Air Force claims that Russia struck 215 missiles and drones during a night assault.
At least five people were killed and more than 20 injured while Russia has launched a missile, drone and bombs dam across Ukraine, officials said.
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Saturday that Russia had struck 215 missiles and drones overnight, and the Ukrainian aerial defenses have shot down and neutralized 87 drones and seven missiles.
At least three people were killed and 17 others, including two children, were injured in the city in the northeast of Kharkiv, said Mayor Ihor Terekhov, describing the assault as “the most powerful” in the city since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
He reported that 48 Iranian manufacturing drones, two missiles and four guided bombs were dismissed before dawn in the city of 1.4 million people, located just 50 km (30 miles) from the Russian border.
“The drones still turn above,” wrote Telekhov on Telegram at 4:40 am (01:40 GMT), while air sirens groaned through the city. Residential buildings and civil infrastructure have been strongly damaged.
The northeast of the city was also struck by a missile strike on Thursday, which made 18 people injured, including four children.
Increase in attacks
Elsewhere in the south, the Russian bombings struck the city of Kherson, killing a couple and damaging residential buildings, confirmed the regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin. In Dnipro, two women, aged 45 and 88, were injured in separate attacks.
On Friday, officials said on Friday that at least six people had been killed and that dozens were injured on Friday when Russia launched an air bombardment across Ukraine. The rescuers of the city of Lutsk recovered another body on Saturday, passing the toll of the attacks from Friday to seven.
Moscow said on Friday’s assault had been committed in response to the Ukrainian “terrorist acts” against Russia, saying the military sites were targeted.
The sharp increase in Russian attacks follows a Ukrainian drone operation last weekend which damaged military planes capable of nuclear power in the Russian air bases deeply behind the front lines, including in Siberia. Russian President Vladimir Putin is committed to retaliation for the attack, which kyiv would have planned for 18 months using smuggling drones.
Ukraine, on the other hand, continues to put pressure for a 30-day ceasefire and presented its last proposal during the talks in Istanbul on Monday. But Moscow rejected calls to a truce, insisting that war is a question of national survival.
“For us, this is an existential problem,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. “This concerns our national interest, our security and the future of our country.”
Putin asked Ukraine to withdraw from four partially occupied regions, to abandon her NATO ambitions and to stop all Western military cooperation – the terms kyiv rejected as unacceptable. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rather called for a three summit involving himself, Putin and American president Donald Trump.
