At least 10 people, including two children, were killed when a Russian missile struck a five-storey apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said. Sixteen people were reported wounded as rescuers searched the wreckage in Ukraine's second-largest city.
Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said the attack damaged the residential block on Saturday morning. Officials identified a 13-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy among the dead, along with a 65-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man. The names of the victims were not included in the supplied reports.
Emergency crews continued clearing debris after the strike. President Volodymyr Zelensky said people might still be trapped and that all necessary services had been sent to the scene. The differing early injury totals in the supplied coverage reflected updates during the rescue response: the BBC reported at least 10 injured, while CTV News later cited 16.
The damage extended beyond the building that was hit. Syniehubov said seven apartment buildings, an administrative building and sections of the city's power grid were affected. Elsewhere in the Kharkiv region, a drone attack on a house in central Chuhuiv injured two people, according to the city's mayor.
The Kharkiv strike formed part of a much broader overnight attack. Zelensky said Russia launched 29 missiles and 480 drones, targeting energy facilities in the Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi regions as well as railway infrastructure in Zhytomyr. His figures were reported as a Ukrainian government account and were not independently confirmed in the supplied evidence. Air-raid alerts were activated across multiple regions.
Russia's Defence Ministry confirmed that its forces used drones, saying military compounds, airfields and energy facilities were among the targets. The ministry did not address the reported civilian casualties in Kharkiv in the supplied material. Poland's air force also scrambled military aircraft as a precaution to protect areas bordering Ukraine during the large-scale assault.
Other attacks overnight caused casualties beyond Kharkiv. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration said one person was killed and another injured in the Nikopol district after repeated drone, artillery and rocket attacks. A separate strike in Zaporizhzhia injured a baby.
The destruction in Kharkiv again placed civilians at the center of the continuing war. While the two sides offered different descriptions of the intended targets, the verified outcome at the apartment block was a major rescue operation, extensive residential damage and the deaths of adults and children in their homes. Officials had not provided a timetable for restoring every affected home or section of the power network, leaving recovery work to continue after the rescue phase.
