UKRAINE – An overnight Russian drone attack on Kharkiv resulted to the deaths of 4 people while 13 others sustained injuries according to Ukraine on Monday.
“According to preliminary data, four people were killed and at least 13 were injured, two of them children,” said a statement by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service on Telegram, reporting that the city’s Shevchenkivskyi and Saltivskyi districts were targeted.
In a morning statement, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov claimed that a total of 15 drones were launched on the city overnight.
“In Kharkiv, seven private houses, an apartment building, power grids, a civil enterprise, four cars, and an educational institution building were damaged,” Synyehubov added.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Air Force claimed in a later statement on Telegram that its air defenses shot down 125 of 162 various types of drones launched by Russia.
“Civilian infrastructure facilities and private households in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions were most affected,” the statement added.
Situated about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the Russian border, Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv has been regularly targeted by airstrikes amid the ongoing three-and-a-half-year war.
Local authorities in the Chernihiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions did not report any casualties.
Much of Krasnoarmeysk Now Under Russian Control
The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin on Monday said that the Russian forces now control most the Krasnoarmeysk.
“In the Krasnoarmeysk direction, in the city itself, most of which is now under the control of the Russian Armed Forces , efforts to grind down the enemy continue. The enemy is trapped in a cauldron and suffering serious losses,” he said.
He added that the Russian forces are attacking from different positions for a faster liberation of the Krasnoarmeysko-Dimitrovskoye agglomeration.
“Over the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 93 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,” a Ministry statement said.
According the statement, the UAVs were downed in the following regions:
45 – in the Belgorod region
20 – over the Black Sea
9 – in the Krasnodar region
8 – over the Sea of Azov
7 – in the Nizhny Novgorod region
4 – in Voronezh
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