Authorities report that a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, burns residences on fire

Early on Friday morning, three residences in the northern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv were set on fire and two people were injured by a Russian missile attack, according to local officials.

The second-biggest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv, is particularly vulnerable to air strikes and has sustained significant damage as a result of Moscow’s recent increase in bombings. Kharkiv is located only 30 kilometers from the Russian border.

Governor Oleh Syniehubov posted on the Telegram messaging app that two people, including an 11-year-old child, were shell shocked.

According to Mayor Ihor Terekhov, 26 buildings were damaged and two were entirely destroyed when an S-300 missile dropped into the city. He did not elaborate on the nature of the structures.

Fires were roaring in what seemed to be residential homes around dawn, according to a Reuters cameraman on the scene. Working among the debris, the emergency personnel hurried to put out the fires.

According to Illya Yevlash, a spokesman for the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched two S-300/S-400 missiles at the area overnight. Where the second one landed was unknown.

According to Syniehubov, another guided bombing attack in the village of Derhachi, close to the Russian border, damaged over 25 structures when it descended close to an infrastructure complex.

In March of this year, Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, increased the ferocity of its drone and missile attacks.

Authorities in Kharkiv and the surrounding area were forced to implement rolling blackouts due to severe damage to the electricity infrastructure, which instilled anxieties about what would happen when energy usage increases later this year.

All ten of the Russian drones that were fired into the southern areas of Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson were intercepted by the air force.

Although hundreds of people have died as a result of Moscow’s assaults on Ukraine, Moscow denies targeting civilians.

It claims that its attacks on the electrical system are legal and has justified a number of significant recent operations as a form of revenge for Russian oil refineries being targeted by Ukrainian drones.