The number of people injured in the drone attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, has reached 64, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, APA reports.
According to him, the number of fatalities from the attack has risen to three.
The Ukrainian leader has called for increased pressure on Russia.
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A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed at least two people and injured 57, including seven children, regional officials said on Wednesday, APA reports citing Reuters.
The intense strikes with 17 drones sparked fires in 15 units of a five-storey apartment building and caused other damage in the city close to the Russian border, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
The Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 85 drones overnight, 40 of which were shot down.
It said nine drones were lost - a reference to the Ukrainian military using electronic warfare to redirect them, or they were drone simulators that did not carry warheads.
"The main areas of the air strike are Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Odesa regions," the military said on Telegram.
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