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Russia launched a large-scale overnight barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine from Friday to Saturday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than a dozen others, including children, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russia fired 29 missiles and about 480 drones during the assault, with several targeting the country’s energy facilities and railway infrastructure.
Authorities in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, reported that a ballistic missile strike destroyed a five-storey apartment building, leaving nine people dead.
Reporters at the scene saw rescue workers searching through the wreckage, where several individuals were believed to remain trapped beneath the debris.
“Since last night, the rubble of a residential building in Kharkiv is being cleared following a Russian ballistic missile strike,” Zelensky wrote on social media.
The victims included two women and their two children, according to Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov.
“Russia has not abandoned its attempts to destroy Ukraine’s residential and critical infrastructure,” Zelensky added, urging Kyiv’s allies to continue providing military assistance.
Moscow said it had carried out a “massive high-precision strike” against military targets in Ukraine and has consistently denied deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure.
The Russian military also reported intercepting more than 120 Ukrainian drones overnight.
Meanwhile, authorities installed by Russia in the occupied Kherson region said one person was killed and four others were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike.
Air Defence Concerns
Air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine throughout the night.
The air force of Poland said it scrambled military aircraft to safeguard its airspace near the Ukrainian border, a routine measure during major Russian attacks.
Elsewhere, one person was killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region, while three others were injured in the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian officials reported.
In the Sumy region bordering Russia, a 24-year-old man died when a Russian drone struck his car, local authorities said.
The continuing drone attacks come shortly after Moscow and Kyiv exchanged 500 prisoners of war each, following agreements reached during recent peace talks in Geneva.
However, negotiations appear to have stalled amid limited progress and the outbreak of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
Zelensky has warned that a prolonged regional war could disrupt deliveries of US-made air defence systems. Ukraine is currently facing shortages of PAC-3 air defence missiles.
He has proposed exchanging Ukraine’s drone interceptors with the United States for the missiles and suggested deploying Ukrainian drone specialists to assist Washington’s Gulf allies in countering Iranian drones.
Earlier delays in US missile deliveries during the winter left Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure more exposed to Russian bombardments, which cut heating supplies to hundreds of thousands of people during freezing conditions.
