KYIV: Russia launched a drone assault on Ukraine’s metropolis of Kharkiv, killing seven folks, together with three young children, triggering blazes and damaging infrastructure and residential homes, regional officers stated on Saturday (Feb 10).
Oleh Synehubov, Kharkiv regional governor, stated the Russian forces struck town late on Friday, hitting civilian infrastructure, inflicting a number of massive fires, and damaging at the least 15 residential homes within the east of Kharkiv.
“On account of the strikes, seven folks died, amongst them three kids: Seven, four-years outdated, and a child about six- months outdated,” he stated on the Telegram messaging app.
Three folks had been wounded, he stated.
The Ukrainian air power stated that air defence and cellular teams of drone hunters shot down 23 out of 31 Russian-launched drones, which had been focusing on the Kharkiv area within the northeast of the nation and in addition the Odesa area within the south.
In Kharkiv, the top of the native prosecutor’s workplace, Oleksandr Filchakov, stated in a video posted on Telegram that three drones hit the petrol station in Nemyshlianskyi district of town.
