Overnight Russian missile and drone attacks injure civilians in multiple Ukrainian regions

Meduza.io

Russian forces carried out a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Thursday night, according to local authorities and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

In Kharkiv’s Slobidskyi district, a Russian strike sparked a fire at a municipal transport agency. One company building and a trolleybus caught fire, and 38 vehicles belonging to the company were damaged, along with nearby houses. Three civilian women were injured.

In the village of Vasyliv Khutir in the Chuhuiv district, missiles and drones damaged a private home, farms, a warehouse, and agricultural machinery. Eight people were injured, including two 16-year-olds.

In the village of Yavorske in the Izyum district, a drone hit a farm building. In the city of Izyum, a drone strike sparked a fire at a warehouse. No casualties were reported in these cases.

In the Odesa region, a drone attack sparked a fire at a delivery service branch, damaging cargo trucks parked nearby. No one was hurt, according to local emergency services.

In the city of Bilozerske in the Donetsk region, a drone struck a five-story apartment building, causing a fire, according to regional prosecutors. A woman and her 16-year-old son were injured.

In Zaporizhzhia, a fire broke out at an infrastructure facility following an attack, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov. Preliminary reports indicated no casualties.

According to Ukraine’s Air Force Command, Russia launched a total of 90 Shahed-type drones and decoy drones, along with two Iskander-M (KN-23) ballistic missiles. The main targets were the Kharkiv, Odesa, and Donetsk regions.

By morning, Ukrainian air defenses had shot down 56 Shahed drones. “Enemy aerial attacks were recorded in 12 different locations,” the Air Force reported.

Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, reported that its air defenses had intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian drones overnight: 15 in the Belgorod region and 12 in the Kursk region.

In the Belgorod region, a drone hit a vehicle near the village of Zozuli in the Borisovsky district, injuring the driver, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. The man was hospitalized.

In the Kursk region, a 27-year-old civilian was wounded while driving, said regional head Alexander Khinshtein. The man was taken to the hospital with shrapnel injuries. Drone debris also damaged the building of Kursk City Hospital No. 1 and multiple apartment buildings.