Russian forces massively strike Kharkiv suburbs and Odesa, killing 4
Russian forces carried out a massive overnight attack on the suburbs of Kharkiv and the city of Odesa, killing four people and wounding at least 11 others, local officials and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.
Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said that a series of explosions rocked the area near Kharkiv overnight. Four people were killed and six others injured with varying degrees of severity.
The State Emergency Service reported that Russian forces struck a postal terminal in Kharkiv’s suburbs, causing building destruction and multiple fires across approximately 500 square meters. Emergency crews rescued 30 people, including two pulled from the rubble of a collapsed structure. Search-and-rescue and firefighting operations continue.
In Kharkiv itself, a Shahed drone hit a children’s sanatorium in the Shevchenkivskyi district, igniting a fire, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Odesa also came under attack. Two waves of strikes damaged residential buildings and social infrastructure facilities — a hospital, a kindergarten, and a school — in the city center, Odesa city military administration head Serhiy Lysak reported. Five people were injured.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, as of 7 a.m., about 30 Russian strike drones were in the air over the Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kyiv oblasts. Twenty minutes later, Russia launched missiles.