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Russian guided bomb hits apartment building in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, injures 10

Reuters A Russian guided bomb struck a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, late on Wednesday, starting fires and injuring at least 10 people, local officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the strike, the latest in a long series of attacks on the city, underscored the need for more help from Ukraine’s […]

Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures 12

Reuters Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, injuring at least 12 people and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Kharkiv, 30 kilometres from the Russian border, has been a frequent target of Moscow’s attacks since the Kremlin’s troops launched their […]

Russian bomb strikes Kharkiv apartment building, one dead, 42 injured, officials say

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters A Russian-guided bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building on Sunday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, triggering a fire and killing one person and injuring 42, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the latest attack underscored the need for Ukraine’s Western partners to provide weapons and air defence systems and permission to use […]

Kharkiv struck by missiles after Ukraine launches mass drone attack on Russia

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters At least 47 people, including five children, were injured on Sunday after Russian missiles struck a shopping mall and events complex in Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Kharkiv, officials said. Earlier in the day, Russia said Kyiv had launched one of the biggest drone attacks against it since the full-scale war began, targeting […]

Russian bomb hits high-rise building in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, killing seven

Reuters A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a playground on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 77 more, local authorities said. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a 14-year-old girl was among the dead. Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor, had earlier said on Telegram […]

Russian attacks on Ukraine kill four and injure 37, local authorities say

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 37, Ukrainian military and local authorities said on Sunday. Overnight attacks targeted Ukraine’s frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine’s air force said on the Telegram messaging app. People stand near the rubble of […]

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy visits frontline area in Kharkiv region

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had travelled to the frontline area of Vovchansk in the north-eastern Kharkiv region near the Russian border, where Moscow’s forces have been trying to break through. Russian troops opened a new front in the north of the region in May, rapidly making inroads up […]

Russian attacks kill three, damage Swiss NGO’s office in Kharkiv, Ukraine says

Reuters Russia launched a series of attacks on the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region on Wednesday, killing three people, wounding at least six and damaging the office of a Swiss mine-clearing NGO, local officials said. Ukraine’s second-largest city and the surrounding region, which borders Russia, have been battered by drone, missile […]

Two dead in Russian ‘double tap’ attack on town near Ukraine’s Kharkiv

Reuters Russian forces launched a “double tap” missile attack on Saturday on a small town near Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, killing two people, an emergency services official and a police officer, officials said. Officials also reported four dead in a series of attacks in Donetsk region to the south-east and two more in southern […]

Russia attacks Ukraine’s two largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv

Reuters Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s two largest cities on Sunday, with missile fragments falling on a suburban Kyiv apartment building and a guided bomb killing one person in Kharkiv. More than 28 months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces maintain regular attacks on Ukrainian cities as well as on energy infrastructure. Local residents stand […]