Ukraine on Saturday announced a nationwide alert as Russia launched air strikes, including ballistic missiles, on northeastern Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions killed six people early on Saturday.
Bodies of five people were found in the rubbles of an apartment block in eastern Kharkiv region, while another person was killed in Dnipropetrovsk region. Ten more civilians, including two boys, aged six and 11, were injured during the attack on Kharkiv, regional mayor Igor Terekhov said.
Head of the Kharkiv regional military administration Oleg Synegubov also confirmed the atack on the region, writing on Telegram that "Following the enemy attack, part of a five‑storey residential building in the Kyivsky district of Kharkiv was practically destroyed. A nearby house was also damaged.”
In Dnipropetrovsk, regional administration head Oleksandr Ganzha reported that a Russian attack in the Nikopol district left one person dead and another injured. He said Russian forces struck the area around 20 times using drones, artillery, and rockets.
In southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian drone strike injured a baby, according to regional administration head Ivan Fedorov.
Meanwhile, in Chuguiv in the Kharkiv region, Mayor Halyna Minayeva said two people were wounded when a drone hit a house in the city centre. Air-raid alerts were issued across Ukraine overnight due to ongoing Russian attacks.
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