Russian attack on residential building in Kharkiv injures at least 15, kills 7, including children
Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated.
Russian troops struck a five-story building in the city of Kharkiv with a ballistic missile overnight on March 7, injuring at least 15 people and killing seven others, including two children, local authorities reported.
Russia launched 480 drones, including Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicles, and 29 missiles, including hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile and Iskander-M ballistic missiles, targeting energy infrastructure across Ukraine, the Air Force reported. Ukrainian forces downed 453 drones and 19 missiles, the statement read.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said that the Russian attack on the city killed a teacher and her nine-year-old son, as well as a 13-year-old girl and her mother.
Among the injured in Kharkiv were two boys, aged six and 11, and a 17-year-old girl, according to governor Oleh Syniehubov.
The number of victims could grow as rescue operations are still underway. Fourteen people are believed to be trapped under the rubble.
Two people were injured in the town of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast after a Russian drone attacked a home at around 1:20 a.m., according to State Emergency Service.
"There must be a response from partners to these savage strikes against life," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. "Russia has not abandoned its attempts to destroy Ukraine’s residential and critical infrastructure, and therefore support must continue."
Russia also launched ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight, hitting a critical infrastructure facility, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The recent attack left 1,905 more homes without heat, he added.
Three people were injured in Ukraine's capital, with missile fragments found in three districts of the city, the mayor said.
Russia regularly strikes Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings and energy infrastructure, as it continues to wage its full-scale war.
A Russian mass attack against Ukraine on Feb. 26 injured at least 28 people, according to local authorities.
In the early hours of Feb. 22, one man was killed after Russia launched a large-scale combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine.
The attack caused a building to collapse in the town of Fastiv, 60 kilometers southwest of Kyiv, killing a 49-year-old man and injuring seven others, according to Kyiv Oblast Governor Mykola Kalashnyk.
