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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 3, 2025.
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“Russia launched a mass drone attack late on Friday (May 2, 2025) in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, hitting a high-rise apartment block, triggering fires and injuring 40 people,” officials said.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said there had been strikes in 12 locations in four central districts of the city, a repeated target of Russian air attacks lying 30 km (19 miles) from the country’s northeastern border.
Mr. Terekhov said a house had also been hit. Seven of the injured were being treated in hospital.
Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said the number of injured could still rise.
Regional authorities in southern Kherson region said a village resident died when a fallen drone exploded as he was trying to carry it away from a house.
Russia’s Defence Ministry, meanwhile, reported that its air defence units had destroyed 10 drones in an hour: eight over the border region of Bryansk and two over Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Published – May 03, 2025 01:31 pm IST
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Russian drones hit apartment block in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, 40 hurt
