Authorities said three guided aerial bombs were used against Ukraine’s second-largest city.
One blast damaged an endocrinology hospital building. There were no casualties, but all patients were moved to other hospitals.
At least six Kharkiv residents were wounded elsewhere in the city, reports said.
The strikes also hit energy infrastructure, knocking out electricity in several districts of Kharkiv.
Nearly 30,000 customers lost power, Mayor Igor Terekhov said, adding that the three bombs damaged the hospital and power lines.
Attacks on the power system overnight caused outages in several settlements in the central Kirovograd region, officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at a meeting with senior military and political leaders, said Russia has intensified strikes on energy infrastructure and called for rapid repairs.
He thanked energy workers, repair crews and the State Emergency Service, describing their around-the-clock efforts as “heroic.”
Zelensky said the situation is most difficult in frontline towns and near the Russian border, where drones and missiles have the shortest flight times and air-raid alerts and shelling are almost continuous.
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Source: Polskie Radio 24, Reuters