Russian Drone Attack on Kharkiv Injures 27

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, is near the Russian border and has been rocked repeatedly by missile and drone attacks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country over three years earlier.

The strike caused a fire in a multi-storey apartment block, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The Shevchenkivskyi district area of the city suffered most of the injuries, regional governor Oleh Sinehubov said, underlining how the impact affected a number of city blocks. Emergency services are still working at the scene to evaluate and repair the damage.

No Immediate Response from Moscow
The full extent of the destruction from the recent attack was not immediately clear. Russia has not commented on the strikes. Both Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly denied deliberately targeting civilians, though the war has caused thousands of deaths among noncombatants, the majority of them Ukrainian.

Wider Attacks Across Ukraine
A Russian strike in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine on Sunday afternoon killed two people and injured two others. Some 20 buildings were also damaged, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

In the capital city Kyiv, an overnight drone attack caused damage to buildings and vehicles across three of the city’s ten districts. No injuries were reported in the incident, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Russian bombardments of Ukrainian cities are ongoing and civilian areas have been left unprotected despite international appeals for restraint and the protection of non-combatants.