Russian forces launched a day-long barrage of drone strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city on Thursday (2 April), injuring at least two people and sparking fires across several districts, local officials said.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov posted frequent updates on Telegram throughout the day, reporting strikes in four city districts. One city official said at least 20 impacts were recorded.
Public broadcaster Suspilne reported further explosions in the city after 2 am (23:00 GMT), while Reuters Television footage showed firefighters dousing a smouldering residence heavily damaged by a drone. Inside the apartments, furniture and fixtures lay shattered. Among the injured was an eight-year-old girl.
Further south, in Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said a high-rise apartment building and a local business were damaged by a Russian strike. No casualties were reported.
Across the border in Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said 13 people were injured in a series of drone attacks, 11 of them in the village of Shebekino near the border.
In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defence units intercepted a Ukrainian drone heading towards the capital shortly after midnight, along with two others later on Thursday.
The strikes come amid heightened tensions between Russia and the European Union.
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said on Friday that Russia should abandon what he described as a “tolerant attitude” towards Ukraine joining the EU.
“The EU is no longer just an economic union. It can transform, and rather quickly, into a full-blown military alliance, one overtly hostile to Russia, and in some ways worse than NATO,” Medvedev said.
“It is time to drop the tolerant attitude towards our neighbours joining what is now a military-economic European Union.”
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