Russia launched a massive airstrike across Ukraine overnight, targeting infrastructure in multiple regions and resulting in the deaths of at least 4 civilians, including a 10-year-old girl in Odessa and a 14-year-old girl in Kharkiv, where two women aged 43 and 59 were also killed. Attacks have damaged energy facilities in the Kharkiv, Kiev, Zaporizhzhia, and Lviv regions. Engineers are working to restore the damaged sites, Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said via Facebook.
The Air Force issued an airborne warning for most of the country, including regions in the far west, in the early hours of this morning. The military announced that Russia had launched drones, cruise missiles from Tu-95 bombers, and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles towards various regions. There have been reported explosions in the city of Kharkiv around 5 a.m. local time. According to oblast governor Oleh Syniehubov, the region has been hit at least 10 times, with damage to infrastructure.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov told residents to expect power outages, announcing that the subway would be out of service for several hours. Russian forces attacked the oblast of Kiev with drones overnight, targeting the region for over five hours. According to Governor Ruslan Kravchenko, the drone attacks caused a fire in an infrastructure in Kiev Oblast, adding that emergency services were working at the scene and that no casualties had been reported. Russian attacks also occurred in the western regions of Ukraine.
The governor of Lviv oblast Maksym Kozytskyi reported that a Russian missile entered the region’s airspace shortly before 6 a.m. local time. Air defense systems were active in the area
