Overview
- Local officials and Kharkiv’s mayor reported that several glide bombs hit the Kholodnohirskyi district overnight, damaging more than 40 homes and injuring at least six people.
- Ukraine’s Air Force issued air‑raid alerts as the glide bombs were launched, and city authorities said on Telegram that initial casualty and damage counts remain provisional.
- The mayor identified the Kholodnohirskyi district as the strike zone and local teams are still assessing the severity of injuries and the full extent of destruction to residences.
- Kharkiv has faced multiple recent attacks this week, including a double‑tap strike that killed emergency responders and a drone strike that set the city’s art museum on fire and injured civilians.
- The strike follows a major Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow that damaged an oil refinery, underscoring a cycle of cross‑border strikes and the growing use of stand‑off weapons such as glide bombs that can reach cities near the front line.