KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes hit high-rise residence blocks in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, leaving dozens wounded in a second consecutive nighttime assault this week.
The bombs fell Saturday night time on the district of Shevchenkivsky, in Ukraine’s northeast, native Gov. Oleh Syniehubov mentioned. Residential 16 and 9-storied buildings have been destroyed, and 7 extra buildings have been broken, he added.
Twenty-one individuals have been wounded, together with an eight-year-old, two 17-year-olds and several other older adults, in line with Syniehubov and Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov.
The assault got here after one other late Friday that wounded 15 individuals, together with a 10- and 12-year-old, as Russian airstrikes hit three Kharkiv neighborhoods, Terekhov mentioned.
Based on Ukrainian officers, KAB-type aerial glide bombs have been utilized in each assaults, a retrofitted Soviet weapon that has for months laid waste to jap Ukraine.
Russia additionally launched 80 Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukraine in a single day into Sunday, the Ukrainian air pressure mentioned in a web based assertion. Ukrainian air protection shot down 71 drones, and one other six have been misplaced on location resulting from digital warfare countermeasures, the assertion mentioned.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022