Russia launched barrage of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest Kharkiv on Saturday morning, killing at least five people and injuring seventeen others in what became the biggest attack on the city.
Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of the southern city Kharkiv described the strike as the “most powerful attack” on Kharkiv since the start of the war three years ago. The attack was launched with Iranian-made Shaheed drones, guided bombs, and missiles before the dawn, Prokudin said. One woman was pulled alive from the rubble of a multi-storey residential building. Among the killed civilians are a married couple who died in a strike on a residential building.
"Hundreds of drones and missiles rained down on Ukraine overnight. Kharkiv had a particularly terrible night,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, describing the attack as Russian “terror against civilians”. Ukraine's Air Force said that Russia launched nine missiles and 206 drones overnight.
The strike on Kharkiv came after massive drone and missile attacks struck Ukraine on Thursday night, killing at least seventeen people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said three emergency workers who went to bomb site were killed in “repeated attacks”.
The attack was in response to Ukraine’s Spiderweb operation last week that destroyed strategic Russian bombers in four Russian military airfield, using FPV drones hidden on top of trucks.
