KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have struck a high-rise apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, wounding dozens of people in the second overnight attack in the past week.
The bomb fell on Saturday night in the Shevchenkovsky district north of the center of the second city of Kharkiv, local governor Oleh Shniekhbov said, adding that nine residential buildings, including one 16-storey and one nine-storey, suffered varying degrees of damage.
Twenty-one people were injured, including an 8-year-old child, according to Sinyekhbov and Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov. Terekhov said 60 residents had been evacuated from one of the buildings.
Kharkiv has been a frequent target of Russian attacks since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022.
Terekhov said the attack followed Russian airstrikes on three districts of Kharkiv late on Friday, wounding 15 people, including children aged 10 and 12.
Ukrainian officials said both attacks used KAB-type airborne gliding bombs, modified versions of the Soviet weapon that have devastated eastern Ukraine for months.
Russia also launched 80 Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukraine overnight and into Sunday, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Ukraine's air defense forces shot down 71 drones, with six more lost on the ground due to electronic warfare countermeasures, the statement said.
Further south, in the city of Nikopol, a Russian drone struck a car, killing a 12-year-old girl and a woman, regional governor Serhiy Lysak reported. Two others, including a four-year-old, were injured.
As Russian forces continue their westward advance through Ukraine's industrial Donetsk region, Russian artillery fire also killed one person in the eastern town of Krahove, local prosecutors said.
Russian drone attacks on Sunday also damaged energy infrastructure in the Poltava region in central Ukraine and the northern city of Shoshka, local authorities reported.
Shostka is in the Sumy region, across the border from Russia's Kursk Oblast, which was the target of a surprise Ukrainian military invasion launched last month. Weeks after the invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhernesky said the aim was to create a buffer zone to stop Russian cross-border attacks that have been wreaking havoc in Sumy for months.
