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07-06-2025
MOSCOW/ KHARKIV: At least three people have been killed and another 21 injured including a month-old baby, in the biggest Russian drone attack to hit Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv, the mayor says.
Ihor Terekhov says multiple residential buildings have been hit after Russia launched nearly 50 drones towards the city overnight.
It was one of the most intense attacks to hit the city since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, our correspondent Paul Adams writes.
Separately, two people have been killed in Kherson after strikes hit residential buildings, a regional official says.
This follows a round of intense strikes across Ukraine on Friday, when six people were killed and 80 injured, Russia says it was in response to a major Ukrainian drone attack on Sunday.
What’s happened?
Overnight Russia has struck Ukraine’s second biggest city, Kharkiv, with drones, missiles and guided bombs.
At least three people have been killed and more than 20 others injured, the city’s mayor says, with a baby and a 14-year-old girl among those hurt.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov calls it the most powerful attack on Kharkiv since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, with photos showing high-rise buildings damaged and on fire.
Russia is yet to comment on the strikes.
Elsewhere, in the southern city of Kherson, officials say a married couple in their 50s were killed when a residential building was hit by Russian shelling.
‘Kharkiv had a particularly terrible night’
Hundreds of drones and missiles “rained down” on Ukraine overnight, the country’s foreign minister says.
“Kharkiv had a particularly terrible night,” Andrii Sybiha writes in a post on social media.
There were also strikes throughout Ukraine, he says, including in the Donetsk, Dnipro, Ternopil and Odesa regions.
“People were injured and killed, and the energy infrastructure was also damaged,” he adds.
Sybiha also urges for more pressure to be put on Moscow, and for more support for Ukraine, to “put an end to Russia’s killing and destruction”.
Let’s just take a step back to look at the current state of play in the war in Ukraine.
As the map above shows, Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control over the past year, mostly in the east of Ukraine.
Meanwhile in the Russian region of Kursk which Ukraine made an incursion into last August and held part of as a bargaining chip, Russian President Vladimir Putin now claims his country is back “in control” and Ukrainian troops there have been isolated.
According to the mayor, around 50 drones, four guided aerial bombs and one missile were launched at the city in the course of just 90 minutes, shortly before dawn.
Apartment blocks and private homes were among the buildings hit. At least three people were killed.
Yesterday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Western leaders who allowed this to keep happening were guilty of complicity.
He’s clearly frustrated by US President Donald Trump, who has yet to show any real willingness to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war.
The Kremlin says its actions are a response to what it calls recent acts of Ukrainian terrorism. (Int’l News Desk)
