At least 13 people were injured overnight from Sunday to Monday in a series of Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city located in the northeast of the country, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said.
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The city of Kharkiv and its region, bordering Russia, have been regularly bombarded by Moscow since the start of the invasion in February 2022, and these strikes have intensified in recent months.
“Russian armed forces carried out massive airstrikes on Kharkiv and its suburbs” in several attacks, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Telegram.
According to him, 13 people were injured, including four police officers.
AFP journalists on site saw a supermarket whose facade was blown away by the explosions, as well as craters on the ground.
According to the prosecution, FAB-250 debris was found at the scene of the strikes. These devastating gliding aerial bombs are used massively by Russia on the front.
Ukraine also announced that its air defenses shot down 50 Iranian-designed Russian explosive drones overnight in nine regions of the country, including over the capital Kyiv, and that a Russian cruise missile struck the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk.
For months, Ukrainian authorities have been asking their Western allies to provide them with more air defense systems to repel Russian attacks.
In October, Russia targeted Ukraine almost daily with waves of explosive drones.
