(Reuters) – Russia launched a mass drone attack late on Friday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, hitting a high-rise apartment block, triggering fires and injuring at least nine people, officials said.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, estimated the number of injured at 12. He said there had been 17 strikes in the city, a repeated target of Russian air attacks lying 30 km (19 miles) from the country’s northeastern border.
Terekhov said a house had also been hit.
Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said nine people had been hurt. He said the main target of the attack was Kharkiv’s central Saltivskyi district.
Regional authorities in southern Kherson region said a village resident died when a fallen drone exploded as he was trying to carry it away from a house.
Russia’s Defence Ministry, meanwhile, reported that its air defence units had destroyed 10 drones in an hour – eight over the border region of Bryansk and two over Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Rod Nickel)
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