A drone attack killed the toddler early Monday after a ballistic missile strike the previous night, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said on Telegram, adding the number of injured was rising.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said 6 more people were killed and 18 injured across both attacks, including six children aged 6 to 17.
“A woman has just been rescued from under the rubble: she is alive,” he wrote, warning others might still be trapped.
Kharkiv, near the Russian border, has faced regular drone and missile strikes since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The earlier ballistic strike shattered about 1,000 windows, Synehubov said. Some residents were evacuated, Ukraine’s state emergency service said.
In the adjacent Sumy region, two people were injured and at least a dozen homes and an educational institution were damaged, authorities said. Russia “continues to deliberately target civilian infrastructure […] at night,” regional chief Oleh Hryhorov said.
Reuters could not independently verify the weapons used. There was no immediate comment from Moscow. Both sides deny targeting civilians, but thousands have died, most of them Ukrainian.
Trump, who hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for talks aimed at ending the war, urged Kyiv to cut a deal with Moscow, saying, “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not.”
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Source: Euronews, Reuters