Overnight drone and missile strikes across Ukraine left 10 dead and more than a dozen wounded, including children. Peace negotiations have stalled amid the turmoil in the Middle East.
https://p.dw.com/p/59ySNOvernight attack on apartment building killed at least seven people in KharkivImage: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/REUTERSAdvertisementRussia launched overnight drone and missile strikes across Ukraine, leaving 10 people dead and others injured.
A ballistic missile strike hit a five-story residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, killing 10, including two children, and injuring 16 more.
Rescuers were sifting through the rubble on Saturday, searching for survivors. Several people were believed to be still trapped under the debris.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used 29 missiles, almost half of them ballistic, and 480 drones, most of them Iranian-designed Shaheds, during its overnight attack.
"There must be a response from partners to these savage strikes against life," Zelenskyy said on X. "Russia has not abandoned its attempts to destroy Ukraine's residential and critical infrastructure, and therefore support must continue."
Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said the wounded included two boys, aged six and 11, and a 17-year-old girl. Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv regional governor, said two children were also among those killed.
The regional governor added that seven residential apartment blocks, commercial and administrative buildings, electricity distribution lines and cars were also damaged in Kharkiv by the Russian strikes.
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Zelenskyy said that besides Kharkiv, Russian strikes also targeted energy infrastructure in Kyiv, the Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi regions, and the railway in the Zhytomyr region.
An air raid alert was triggered during the night across Ukraine, while neighboring Poland scrambled military aircraft to protect its airspace in border regions as a precaution to the attacks.
Preliminary data suggested Ukrainian air defense systems downed 19 missiles and 453 drones
"Damage has been reported in the Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, and Cherkasy regions," Zelenskyy said, adding that "relevant services are working wherever necessary."
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In the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, one person was killed, while three more were wounded in the capital Kyiv, according to local authorities.
A 24-year-old man died in his car in the Sumy region after it was struck by a Russian drone, local officials said.
Injuries were also reported in drone attacks in Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine and in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region.
The strikes also damaged the rail infrastructure, forcing changes to a number of routes in the center-west of the country, according to Ukraine's state rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia.
Peace negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have stalled amid the war that broke out in the Middle East a week ago after the US and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran.
