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Kharkiv apartment block strike
A Russian missile struck a five-storey residential apartment block in Kharkiv, collapsing an entrance from the first to the fifth floor and trapping residents under rubble.
“A Russian missile strike hit a residential five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, collapsing an entire entrance from the 1st to the 5th floor and trapping residents in the rubble, the Kyiv Post reported. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attack killed at least 10 people — including two children (a second-grade boy and a 13-year-old girl) and a primary school teacher and her son — and injured 16 others.”
Local officials said the assault killed at least 10 people, including two children, and injured about 16.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov and other local sources reported the deaths and the scale of the building collapse while national outlets repeated the casualty figures as authorities searched for survivors.
Overnight strikes overview
The Kharkiv strike formed part of a much larger overnight barrage that Ukrainian leaders say included some 29 missiles and roughly 480 drones.
Authorities reported that many of the incoming weapons were aimed at energy and transport infrastructure.
Authorities reported that air defences shot down hundreds of the attackers.
Officials and foreign outlets described the strikes as widespread, affecting Kyiv and multiple regions and causing infrastructure damage.
Kharkiv rescue and casualties
Rescue and recovery operations in Kharkiv involved firefighters, sappers, dog handlers and psychologists working through the night as rubble was cleared and bodies were recovered.
“Explosions struck Kharkiv around 1:35am, triggering a large fire (about 300 sq. m.) and the collapse of at least one residential structure. Rescue teams, firefighters, sappers, dog handlers and psychologists worked through the night clearing rubble, extinguishing fires and searching for survivors amid shattered concrete and burning debris.”
Officials cautioned that casualty counts and injury figures changed as the operation continued and that more people could remain trapped.
Local reports named victims including a teacher, her young son, and other children among the dead or wounded.
Responses to the strikes
Moscow’s military and official spokespeople framed the strikes as precise operations against military factories, energy facilities and air bases.
They denied that civilians were the targets and described the action as a 'massive high-precision strike' while emphasising interceptions of Ukrainian drones.
Ukrainian and independent outlets recorded the human toll and the damage to civilian infrastructure.
Russian accounts stressed military objectives and interceptions.
Appeals for international support
Ukrainian leaders and foreign outlets pressed for increased international support in the wake of the attacks.
“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strikes and called for an international response, saying Russia launched 29 missiles and about 480 drones overnight, damaging energy and other infrastructure in Kyiv and other regions.”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strikes, called for an international response and urged implementation of large EU aid and sanctions measures even as some diplomatic obstacles remained.
Coverage across outlets highlighted both the humanitarian consequences and Kyiv's appeals for more military and financial assistance.