Number of injured in massive attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv exceeds 50, two dead

The number of injured as a result of a massive attack on the Slobidskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of Kharkiv in Ukraine has reached 54, Report informs referring to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

Eight children were among the injured, two people were killed.

The city mayor Ihor Terekhov said that in total, 17 kamikaze drones of the Shahed type were involved in the attack, adding that the strikes hit multi-story and private residential buildings, playgrounds, public transport, and industrial facilities.

As a result of the strikes, fires broke out in residential apartments, the roofs of buildings were destroyed, cars burned out, and windows were blown out by the blast wave.