Morning strikes on Kharkiv injure 22

Russian drones struck the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv on the morning of October 12, hitting multiple apartment buildings and a sports facility. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that five drones struck the district, with one Shahed drone damaging the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors of a high-rise and sparking a fire. New Voice of Ukraine reports that rescue crews were searching through rubble at the scene.

Oleh Synehubov, Head of the Regional Military Administration, reported that the morning strikes in the Kyivskyi district resulted in 22 casualties according to Interfax-Ukraine. New Voice of Ukraine stated that the latest official tally confirmed 12 people were wounded. Synehubov identified the victims as a 10-year-old boy, two women aged 74 and 80, and two men aged 36 and 74.

A separate drone strike hit a sports facility, but no injuries requiring medical attention were reported there, while another drone damaged a private home.

In a separate incident on the night of October 11, a Russian missile strike near a grocery store in the Kharkiv suburb of Pisochyn killed three people and injured 25 others, according to Synehubov.

Brief written by urgent.news from Interfax-Ukraine, New Voice of Ukraine — 2 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.