3 Dead, 17 Wounded, Widespread Destruction After Russian Strike on Ukraine's Kharkiv

On the night of 7 June, Russian troops launched a massive attack on Kharkiv city in Eastern Ukraine using kamikaze drones, guided aerial bombs and missiles. Two people were killed and 17 others were wounded, including two children.

The Gaze reports on this with reference to local authorities on social media.

According to Oleh Synyegubov, head of the Kharkiv region, the enemy attacked the city with 53 Shahed-type drones, four guided aerial bombs and one missile. The Kyiv and Osnovyanskyi districts of Kharkiv were affected.

In the Kyiv district, the Russians struck a civilian enterprise.

‘Preliminarily, as a result of the strike of 40 UAVs, 4 guided aerial bombs and 1 missile on the territory of a civilian enterprise, a fire broke out on an area of 10,000 square metres. Four buildings of the workshop were hit. There may be people under the rubble,’ Synyegubov said.

In the Osnovyanskyi district, a drone hit a nine-storey residential building. The fire engulfed 12 apartments on the seventh, eighth and ninth floors.

According to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, three people were killed and 17 others were injured as a result of the Russian attack in the Osnovyanskyi district.

‘According to preliminary data, as a result of the terrorist shelling of Kharkiv, 18 apartment buildings (three of which have structural damage) and 13 private households have been damaged at this time,’ he said.

As The Gaze reported earlier, on Tuesday, Russian troops struck the central part of the city of Sumy in eastern Ukraine. Three people were killed and more than 20 wounded.