KYIV, Ukraine — Russian guided bombs tore into an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, early Saturday morning, leaving at least one person dead and nine others injured, including a 6-year-old child, according to local officials.
Rescue workers pulled a body from the wreckage several hours after the strike, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported via Telegram. He said the bombs hit the low-rise residential building in Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirskiy district in the early morning hours.
The head of the regional administration, Oleh Syniehubov, confirmed that nine people were hurt in the attack, with five of them requiring hospitalization.
Syniehubov also reported a separate incident in Kharkiv from Friday evening, when a Russian drone hit a civilian vehicle, fatally striking a man and wounding the woman who was driving.
Russian officials did not immediately respond to or acknowledge either attack.
Ukraine’s air force reported that it successfully intercepted 92 out of 99 Russian drones launched during the overnight period, with the remaining seven reaching targets across three locations.
On the Russian side, Gov. Alexander Moor said Saturday that Russian air defenses turned back a Ukrainian drone attack aimed at an oil refinery in Tyumen, located in Western Siberia. He said the facility suffered no damage and that workers were safely evacuated.
Ukraine has made a consistent effort to strike Russian oil infrastructure as a strategy to reduce Moscow’s war funding and bring the impact of the conflict home to the Russian population. Fuel shortages have been reported in some areas as a result.
In one of the largest drone offensives since Russia launched its full-scale invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine struck a major oil refinery near Moscow for the second time in a single week on Thursday, generating massive clouds of black smoke visible over the capital and causing disruptions to hundreds of flights.
Russia’s Defense Ministry stated Saturday that its forces shot down 177 Ukrainian drones overnight, though it did not specify how many managed to reach their intended targets. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two drones were brought down as they approached the capital.
