Less than a month before the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war, at least eight people were injured in the drone attack early this morning in Kharkiv and the regions of Odesa and Kyiv.
The Ukrainian army reported shooting down 65 out of the 100 drones launched by Russia last night. 28 drones missed their targets, two returned to Russia and Belarus, and one drone remained in Ukrainian airspace.
The Russian unmanned aerial vehicle attacks caused damage to private company buildings, infrastructure, apartment blocks, and homes. In Kharkiv, the aerial attack caused a "large-scale fire" in a private industry.
On the other hand, Russian troops, who have been advancing against a smaller Ukrainian army for months, are now only about 4 km from the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region, very close to the Donetsk border (east), at the cost of significant soldier and material losses.
The Russian aerial attacks this morning injured eight people, set fire to a private business, and damaged residential buildings in Ukraine, as reported by local authorities on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
The Ukrainian air forces said they had shot down 65 drones, and 28 others did not hit their targets in the bombing.
A 62-year-old woman was hospitalized, and a 66-year-old man was injured when drone debris damaged several houses in the Kharkiv district, which includes the city of the same name, said regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Russia also launched a drone attack on the port of Odesa, in the Black Sea, causing damage to several residential buildings and cars, and injuring four people in the city and surrounding area, according to governor Oleh Kiper.
After the attack affected electricity and heating in the central city of Uman, in the Cherkasy region, local services were working to restore the supply, according to Mayor Iryna Pletnova.
The drone attack on the Kyiv region destroyed nine vehicles and damaged another 27 at the antique car museum. It also caused damage to homes and cars in the region, without causing casualties, according to local authorities.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in this nearly three-year war that Russia began with a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.