A Russian drone attack claims 6 lives in Ukraine

The mayor and national emergency services of Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, said on Saturday that six people had died and ten more had been injured in a nighttime Russian drone attack.

In a statement on Telegram, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service stated that “six people were killed and at least 10 injured as a result of an enemy strike.”

In a Telegram post, Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov provided the same death toll and injury total, noting that the attack had targeted Shevchenkivskyi, a neighborhood in the city’s north.

According to an AFP report, Terekhov said that the attack was executed by drones manufactured in Iran, which destroyed three dorms, a gas station, and at least nine high-rise buildings.

The governor of the area, Oleg Synegubov, reported that two persons had died in Shevchenkivskyi earlier.

Eight additional persons were hospitalized “with blast injuries and shrapnel wounds,” according to police, who also verified the deaths.

Six men, ages 23 to 76, and two women, ages 25 and 52, are among the injured, according to the police.
Police also reported that no one was harmed in an unrelated attack on the village of Mala Danylivka, which is on the outskirts of Kharkiv to the northwest.

Police posted images of multiple fires in residential areas, including one close to a high-rise apartment building, on Telegram.