SERGEY BOBOK / AFP
A Russian drone attack overnight from Friday to Saturday on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, left six people dead and at least ten injured, according to rescue services and the city’s mayor. “There are six dead and ten injured following the night attack on Shevchenkivskyi district”a district located in the north of the city of Kharkiv, Mayor Igor Terekhov said in a message on Telegram on Saturday.
According to the latter, the attack was carried out with Iranian-made drones, damaging at least nine residential buildings and a gas station.
Read alsoNot far from Kharkiv, Russian savagery revives the nightmare of the Holodomor: the story of the special correspondent of Le Figaro
Among the injured are a “23 year old boy (…) the youngest victim”, “a 25-year-old woman and another 71-year-old”as well as “six men aged 35 to 85”reported the governor of the region Oleg Synegubov on Telegram.
In a previous report, Oleg Synegoubov indicated that two men had been killed in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
Fires also broke out in several populated areas of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, according to photos posted by police on Telegram.
Another attack targeted a village west of Kharkiv overnight from Friday to Saturday, but no casualties were reported, according to police.
The deadly attack on Kharkiv came after the Ukrainian Air Force reported the presence of several Russian drones across the country.
” data-script=”https://static.lefigaro.fr/widget-video/short-ttl/video/index.js” >