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Russian Drone Strikes on Kharkiv Kill Four, Injure at Least 13 Amid Surge in Attacks

Russian drone strikes overnight in Kharkiv killed four people and wounded at least 13, including two children, local officials said. Authorities reported around 48 drones struck multiple city districts, damaging homes, an apartment building, a school, power lines and vehicles. Nearby artillery attacks in Chuhuiv and Kupiansk districts injured one person and forced 89 people to evacuate. The assaults follow a recent rise in attacks across the frontline Kharkiv region.

11:32 PM, 11/24/2025Conflict
Russian Drone Strikes on Kharkiv Kill Four, Injure at Least 13 Amid Surge in Attacks

Four people were killed and at least 13 others — including two children — were wounded after a wave of Russian drone strikes hit the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, provincial authorities reported.

Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov identified the dead as three women, aged 27, 41 and 69, and a 55-year-old man. Regional police said Russian forces launched at least 48 drones targeting the Shevchenkivskyi, Kholodnohirskyi and Saltivskyi districts. The strikes damaged numerous houses and an apartment building, cut power lines and struck a business premises, a school and multiple vehicles.

Outside the city, artillery strikes in the Chuhuiv and Kupiansk districts hit seven rural communities. Officials reported one person injured, 89 people evacuated and damage to homes, farm buildings and vehicles.

These attacks come amid a broader uptick in offensive activity in the frontline Kharkiv region, which borders Russia’s Belgorod province and has seen areas deeper inside Kharkiv city come under fire since the start of the 2022 invasion. In recent weeks, more than 30 people were injured in a separate mass drone raid on Kharkiv that set buildings and cars alight. On the same night as that raid, an 18-year-old woman was killed and nine others wounded when a missile struck the city of Berestyn, about 60 miles southwest of Kharkiv.

Two days earlier, on Nov. 16, two Russian missiles struck near apartment buildings in the town of Balakliia, roughly 50 miles southeast of Kharkiv, killing three people and injuring 15. Kharkiv itself was occupied by Russian forces for about six months early in the war before Ukrainian forces retook the strategically important city in a counteroffensive in September 2022.

Impact and response: Emergency services continue to work at the scenes, and local authorities are restoring power and assessing structural damage. Evacuation and relief efforts are ongoing in affected rural communities.

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