According to the Ukrainian officials, a massive Russian drone and rocket attack in the eastern city of Kharkiv killed at least three people on Saturday and injured 21, the youngest in almost widespread attacks.
The barrage comprised air slide bombs that have become part of a violent Russian rush in the Three Years’ War.
The intensity of the Russian attacks in the past few weeks and Kyiv’s latest surprise drone attack on military airfields deep in Russia seem to dampen that the warfare pages could soon reach a peace agreement.
The Ukrainian cities have regularly bombed themselves in February 2022 since Russia. According to the United Nations, the attacks killed more than 12,000 civilians.
On Saturday, the Ukraine Air Force said that Russia was beaten overnight with 215 rockets and drones, and Ukrainian air defense shot off and neutralized 87 drones and seven rockets.
Several other areas in Ukraine were also met, including the Donetsk regions, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa as well as the city of Ternopil, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, in one position on X.
“To put an end to Russia’s killing and destruction, more pressure on Moscow is required, as is more steps to strengthen Ukraine,” he said.
Russia confirms blows overnight
Later on Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that its armed forces carried out strikes with high precision weapons and drones for military goals in Ukraine overnight.
“The goal of the strikes was achieved. All designated goals were hit,” said the ministry.
Four Ukrainian unmanned boats were also destroyed in the Black Sea, reported the Russian news agencies, citing the
Ministry.
However, there was no comment from Moscow on the reports of victims in Kharkiv.
The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, said the strikes damaged 18 residential buildings and 13 private houses. Terekhov called it “the most powerful attack” on the city since Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine began.
A voluntary team of medical staff travels to West Ukraine twice a year to treat soldiers and civilians with serious facial injuries from the war. Raphaël Bouvier-Auclair from Radio-Canada visited the Canadian organization clinic to see the life-changing transformations.
The regional governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said that two districts in the city were beaten by three rockets, five air slide bombs and 48 drones. There were a baby and a 14-year-old girl among the injuries, he added.
According to local governor Serhii Lysak, 45 and 88 women aged 45 and 88 were injured in the province of Dnipropetrovsk.
The Russian shelling also killed a couple in the fifties in the southern city of Kherson, near the front, the local governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported in a Facebook contribution.
US President Donald Trump said this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin informed him that Moscow would respond to Russian military airfields to the Ukrainian attack last Sunday.
Trump also said that it could be better to let Ukraine and Russia fight for a while before pulling it apart and pursuing peace.
His comments seemed to be a detour from his often specified appeals to stop the war, and signaled that he may give up the recent peace efforts.
