Russian forces maintained a day-long campaign of drone strikes across Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, on Thursday, local officials said. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov posted updates on Telegram during the day and into the evening, reporting strikes in four separate city districts.
According to one city official, there were at least 20 impacts attributed to the drone attacks. The official said some strikes ignited fires. In an evening attack two people were wounded, one of them an eight-year-old girl, the official added.
Further to the south, in the Zaporizhzhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported that a Russian attack damaged a high-rise apartment building and a local business. Fedorov said there were no injuries reported in that incident.
Across the international border in Russia's Belgorod Region, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a series of drone attacks left 13 people injured. Gladkov reported that 11 of those injured were in the village of Shebekino, located just inside the border.
The day-long set of strikes produced a pattern of impacts across urban areas, with officials reporting both physical damage and civilian injuries. Local authorities provided periodic public updates as events unfolded.
Details on the precise timing, scale beyond the reported impacts, and the broader operational intent of the attacks were not provided in the official statements cited by local leaders. The information released to the public focused on the observed impacts - the number of hits in Kharkiv as reported by a city official, the injuries that resulted in the evening assault there, the damage to residential and commercial property in Zaporizhzhia, and the injured civilians in Belgorod Region.
Officials' accounts place civilian housing and small businesses among the locations affected by the strikes, and the reports identify injured individuals on both sides of the border. Beyond those points, the statements left unanswered questions about longer-term consequences, response measures, or further operational developments.