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Kharkiv was under attack for just under two and a half hours last night, but in that time 24 explosions occurred from 25 drones that targeted the city, resulting in 19 injuries to the civilian population, while an Iskander-type missile struck a civilian enterprise, according to the City Mayor and the Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said that the hardest hit areas were the Industrial and Nemishlyansky districts.
Drones struck a 5-story building in the Industrial district, causing a fire to break out in apartments on the upper floors and balcony, as well as casualties including a child, while another hit a nine-floor multi-story building causing a fire to break out on the upper floor and casualties were also recorded.
Damage was caused to a private house where a significant fire broke out because of a drone strike, which resulted in a person being injured and a nearby house being damaged.
One drone hit near a hostel that housed internally displaced people, and was currently accommodating 48 displaced people from the front, as casualties were also recorded.
Hits were recorded on the road between private sector buildings with damage to housing, street lights and cars elsewhere in the city, but no reported casualties from this attack, while a drone fell into the private yard of a house in the Nemishlyansky district which damaged windows of nearby buildings, however there were also no casualties reported.
Patients from the maternity ward and the hospital who were injured as a result of the attack on the Industrial district were transferred to other medical facilities nearby, reported Mayor Terekhov.
According to RMA Oleg Sinegubov, five multi-apartment buildings, 21 private houses, 66 cars, 20 garages, power grids, two civilian enterprises, as well as windows of a college and a maternity ward of a hospital were damaged, noting that more than a thousand windows were broken and the communications systems had been disrupted.
