Russian Drone Attack injured nearly 50 people in Kharkiv
It is estimated that 50 people were injured, including a 11 -year -old child, when Russia attacked the city of Kharkiv with a drone on Friday night, officials said.
Calling it a “big -attack,” Governor Kharkiv Oleg Synegubov wrote in a telegram that the drone crashed into four parts of the city while causing fires and damaging the house, buildings and cars.
Mayor Kharkiv said 12 different locations in the four districts were beaten and that eight people were still in the hospital in medium condition.
Although there may be more attacks, emergency workers are on the ground to extinguish the fire and clean up damage because medical staff work hard to help the injured.
Only a few hours earlier, Russia had launched another attack, this time at Zaporizhzhia, hurting 29 people.
These attacks occurred right before the three-day ceasefire planned by Russia for World War II holidays because Ukraine said “ceasefire” was only for performances and not real, with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the drone hit the house, not a military place.
“Russian attacks when people are in their homes, put their children to sleep,” he said.
People standing outside their homes which are partly destroyed after the drone strikes in the final Kharkiv on May 3, 2025, in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Forty -seven people were injured and emphasized due to seventeen Russian drone night attacks on civil infrastructure, residential buildings, houses and shops in Kharkiv.
Sergey Bobok/AFP Via Getty Images
Earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Wednesday that “all a series of nuances” needs to be handled before Russia will approve every peace agreement in the US to end Moscow’s 3 -year invasion to Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin, Peskov said, “said that he supported this initiative-the formation of a ceasefire, he supported it, but before doing so, a series of questions needs to be answered and a series of nuances need to be resolved,” as quoted by the State-managed Tass News Agency.
Zelenskyy once again urged a greater international pressure on Kremlin this week, quoting the last round of drone attacks a few days ago where 45 people were injured in Kharkiv – including two children – and one person was killed in Dnipro.
“Russian drones continue to fly over the sky of Ukraine all morning,” Zelenskyy wrote in Telegram. “And this happens every day. That is why the pressure on Russia is needed – a strong additional sanction that is truly successful. Not only words or persuasion efforts – only pressure that can force Russia to approve of a ceasefire and end the war.”
ABC News’ David Brennan contributed to this report.
