Kharkiv

A Russian bomb attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has injured 22 people, according to the city's mayor. Details on the extent of the damage or the circumstances of the strike were not immediately available, but the incident adds to the ongoing bombardment of Ukrainian urban areas.

Russian forces struck a residential building in Kharkiv with a guided glide bomb, injuring 22 people, including eight children. A 12-year-old and an 8-year-old boy were hospitalised. Elsewhere in Ukraine, four people were hurt in a night attack on Kyiv, and two were wounded in a rocket strike on Izium.

A Russian attack on the Saltivka district of Kharkiv injured 20 people, among them 8 children, according to reports citing the city's attack consequences. The strike adds to a continuing pattern of bombardment of Ukraine's second-largest city, and observers are sharing casualty updates as details of the damage and medical response emerge.

The number of people injured in an attack on Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district has risen to 22. Mayor Ihor Terekhov also reported a hostile Molniya drone striking the Shevchenkivskyi district, with regional governor Oleh Syniehubov saying the drone hit the ground and consequences are still being clarified. Further details of the strike have not been released.