In total, Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 85 drones overnight, 40 of which were shot down
\n Kharkiv
\nA concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine\u2019s second largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed six people and injured 64, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
\nThe overnight attack followed Russia\u2019s two biggest air assaults of the war on Ukraine this week, part of intensified bombardments that Moscow says are retaliatory measures for Kyiv\u2019s recent attacks in Russia.
\nElsewhere, two southern Ukrainian regions, Mykolaiv and Kherson, were left without electricity on Wednesday after Russian forces attacked an energy facility, the governors said.
\nKharkiv, in Ukraine\u2019s northeast, withstood Russia\u2019s full-scale advance in the early days of the war but has since been a regular target of drone, missile and guided aerial bomb assaults.
\nProsecutors in Kharkiv region said on the Telegram messaging app that the death toll had risen to six as rescue teams pulled bodies from under the rubble. They said three people were still believed to be trapped.
\nThe intense strikes by 17 drones on Kharkiv sparked fires in 15 units of a five-storey apartment building and caused other damage in the city close to the Russian border, the city\u2019s mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
\n\u201cThere are direct hits on multi-storey buildings, private homes, playgrounds, enterprises and public transport,\u201d Terekhov said on the Telegram messaging app.
\n\u201cEvery new day now brings new despicable blows from Russia, and almost every blow is telling. Russia deserves increased pressure; with literally every blow it strikes against ordinary life, it proves that the pressure is not enough,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram.
\nA Reuters witness saw emergency rescuers helping to carry people out of damaged buildings and administering care, while firefighters battled blazes in the dark.
\nNine of the injured, including a 2-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, have been hospitalised, Oleh Sinehubov, the governor of the broader Kharkiv region, said on Telegram.
\nIn total, the Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 85 drones overnight, 40 of which were shot down.
\nBlackouts
\nIn the southern Kherson region, workers were trying to restore electricity supplies after Russian forces attacked what its governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said was \u201can important energy facility\u201d.
\n\u201cIt is currently impossible to predict the duration of the work. Residents of the region, I ask you to show understanding and prepare for a prolonged power outage,\u201d he said on the Telegram messenger.
\nThe governor of the neighbouring Mykolaiv region, Vitaliy Kim, said his region was also experiencing emergency shutdowns but that power would soon be restored.
\nKherson region directly borders a war zone and is under daily drone, missile and artillery attack. The Mykolaiv region faces mainly missile and drone attacks.
\nThere was no immediate comment from Russia on the latest overnight attacks.
\nBoth sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched on its smaller neighbour in February 2022. But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In total, Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 85 drones overnight, 40 of which were shot down Kharkiv A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine\u2019s second largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed six people and injured 64, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The overnight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n