Russia hits Ukraine with hundreds of drones, missiles, kills at least 10 in Kharkiv
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Rescuers retrieving the body of a victim from under the rubble of a five-storey residential building in Kharkiv that was hit by a ballistic missile on March 7.
PHOTO: AFP
- Russia launched 480 drones and 29 missiles at Ukraine on March 7, targeting energy and railway infrastructure, according to President Zelensky.
- Kharkiv was heavily hit, with a missile strike killing 10, including two children, in a residential building, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
- Ukrainian air defence intercepted many projectiles, but strikes caused injuries in Kyiv, damaged infrastructure, and prompted emergency power cuts.
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KHARKIV, Ukraine - Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight on March 7, damaging infrastructure and killing at least 10 people, including two children, in the north-east city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had launched 480 drones and 29 missiles targeting the energy sector and railway infrastructure across the country.
“There should be a response from partners to these savage strikes against life,” Mr Zelensky said on the Telegram app.
“Russia has not abandoned its attempts to destroy Ukraine’s residential and critical infrastructure, and therefore support should continue,” the President said, urging partners to continue air defence and weapons supplies.
Ukrainian air defence units shot down 453 drones and 19 missiles, the air force said. But nine missiles and 26 attack drones hit 22 sites.
Ballistic missile slams into residential building
The city of Kharkiv was targeted by both Russian drones and missiles, and 10 people, including two children, were killed after a Russian ballistic missile slammed into a five-storey residential building, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Ms Hanna, a resident of the destroyed building, told Reuters: “When we arrived here 20 minutes after the explosion, I thought I was going to have a stroke. I couldn’t string two words together, and my legs were buckling.
“It’s good that I wasn’t there with my child and that my father was with me. It was ordinary people who lived there. What were they targeting?”
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian military industrial complexes, military airfields and energy facilities, the Interfax news agency reported.
A family photo at the site of a strike on a residential building in Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, on March 7.
PHOTO: EPA
In Kharkiv, 15 people were also wounded and 19 residential buildings were damaged by the Russian attacks, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Commercial and administrative buildings, electricity distribution lines and cars were also hit, he said.
In Kyiv, three people were injured, and the heating was knocked out in 2,806 residential apartment buildings in four districts across the capital after Russian strikes hit an energy infrastructure facility, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
Two children were among the dead in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, after Russia launched 480 drones and 29 missiles at the country.
PHOTO: AFP
National grid operator Ukrenergo said that emergency power cuts were introduced in seven regions following the Russian attacks.
Ukrainian officials said that Russia also attacked four railway stations and other railway infrastructure in central Ukraine and port infrastructure in the southern Odesa region, setting on fire containers with vegetable oil and damaging a grain warehouse. REUTERS
