Russian drone attacks kill three, wound 60 in Ukraine’s Kharkiv

Among the wounded were 9 children aged betwixt 2 and 15, officials successful the northeastern metropolis say.

Russian drone strikes person killed 3 radical and wounded 60, including children, successful the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, officials say.

The city, conscionable 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Russian border, bore the brunt of Russia’s latest aerial battle aboriginal connected Wednesday, with 17 drones striking 2 residential areas, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

“Those are mean sites of peaceful beingness … that should ne'er beryllium targeted,” helium wrote connected Telegram.

Among the 60 wounded successful the attacks were 9 children aged betwixt 2 and 15, according to Kharkiv determination caput Oleh Syniehubov.

One Kharkiv resident, Olena Khoruzheva, told the AFP quality bureau however she had tally with her 2 children distant from the windows of her gathering erstwhile she heard the drones approach.

“The younger 1 laic connected the floor, hands connected his head. I was connected apical of him,” the 41-year-old pharmacist said.

“We heard it approaching. Silence, and past we were thrown against the partition … determination were much explosions, past we heard radical shouting ‘Help! Help!'”

Her 65-year-old neighbour was killed successful the attack, she said.

The battle near exigency crews, metropolis workers and volunteers scrambling done the nighttime to rescue radical from burning buildings and reconstruct indispensable services successful the city, which has been often targeted successful caller months, The Associated Press quality bureau reported.

“We basal strong. We assistance 1 another. And we volition endure,” the city’s politician wrote connected Telegram.

Nightly assaults

The strikes connected Kharkiv were portion of a question of 85 drones deployed by Russia overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said, adding that its aerial defence systems had intercepted 40.

The latest battle followed overmuch larger Russian drone and rocket attacks successful the erstwhile days, successful retaliation from Moscow for an audacious Ukrainian drone operation, codenamed “Spiderweb”, that knocked retired craft stationed astatine subject bases connected Russian soil.

Moscow sent a grounds bombardment of almost 500 drones overnight connected Monday, followed by a wave of 315 drones and 7 missiles the pursuing night.

Kyiv has sent its ain drones successful response, with Moscow’s Ministry of Defence saying 32 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight, the AFP quality bureau reported.

The speech of aerial attacks has continued adjacent arsenic some sides person participated successful caller days successful prisoner exchanges agreed to successful talks successful Istanbul earlier this month.

The exchanges began connected Monday and continued connected Tuesday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posting footage of affectional reunions arsenic shaven-headed prisoners stepped disconnected a autobus and draped themselves successful Ukrainian flags.

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Two rounds of talks betwixt Russia and Ukraine person failed to output a breakthrough successful agreeing to a ceasefire and ending the war.

In caller days, Zelenskyy has urged Ukraine’s Western allies to ramp up unit and instrumentality enactment against Russia, arguing that the Kremlin’s aggression shows it has nary involvement successful a ceasefire.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies