A Russian drone assault on April 3 hit residential buildings Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, killing at the very least three folks and injured 32, native officers mentioned.
The drone assault triggered fires, regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov, mentioned on Telegram, including that that two kids had been among the many injured.
Synyehubov mentioned a number of multistory house blocks had been hit, and a blaze erupted on the roof of 1 constructing. Rescue groups had been nonetheless looking out by the rubble for survivors hours after the assault. In response to authorities, folks had been buried underneath the rubble.
Rescuers earlier recovered the stays of the third sufferer, Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned. Terekhov mentioned Russian troops launched at the very least 14 strikes on Kharkiv in simply 40 minutes.
Synyehubov additionally mentioned one particular person was harm in a drone strike on Ruski Tyshky, a village exterior Kharkiv, which has been hit repeatedly by Russian drone assaults prior to now week.
Within the southeastern metropolis of Dnipro, three folks had been injured in a mass drone assault, the regional governor mentioned.
And at the very least seven drones attacked targets in Zaporizhzhya area, injuring one, the regional governor mentioned.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned early on April 4 that Russian air protection models repelled a drone flying towards Moscow.
“Emergency specialists are working on the web site the place fragments have fallen,” Sobyanin mentioned on Telegram.
Russian information companies later quoted a consultant of the federal transport company as saying the capital’s Vnukovo airport had been reopened for departing flights topic to additional official approvals.
The companies mentioned two different airports had additionally been ordered to shut however there was no rapid phrase on whether or not their operations had resumed.