Russian strike kills woman in Kharkiv as both sides report casualties

30 Jun 2026 • 7:51 AM MYT
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A Russian glide bomb attack killed a 23-year-old woman and wounded 12 other people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, regional officials said on Monday evening, while Moscow-installed authorities in occupied eastern Ukraine said Ukrainian drone attacks had killed three civilians.

Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov said a Russian glide bomb struck near the Kharkiv city centre, damaging commercial buildings, businesses and other infrastructure. One of the injured was admitted to hospital in an "extremely serious condition," he said on Telegram.

Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, lies just over 20 kilometres from the Russian border.

In the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Donetsk region, Moscow-installed governor Denis Pushilin said at least three people were killed in Ukrainian drone attacks.

He said an attack on the settlement of Starobesheve, about 90 kilometres from the front line, wounded two civilians, while drone attacks elsewhere in the region injured at least 11 more people.

About 80% of the Donetsk region is under Russian control.

The information could not be independently verified.

Earlier attacks in Dnipro kill at least six

Earlier on Monday, Ukrainian officials said at least six people were killed in a Russian attack on the south-eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Dnipro, while attacks in neighbouring areas caused further casualties.

At least 28 people were injured in the Dnipro attack, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the military administration for the Dnipropetrovsk region, wrote on Telegram. A company was also damaged.

The regional public prosecutor's office described the incident as a missile strike. Dnipro is a key centre for the Ukrainian defence industry.

Authorities also reported casualties in the neighbouring Zaporizhzhya region.

Three people were killed and eight others injured, military governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. He said the Russian military had attacked a bus in a district of Zaporizhzhya using a drone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke not only of the attacks in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhya, but also of strikes on energy infrastructure in the regions of Sumy, Odessa and Chernihiv, as well as attacks in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions.

He reiterated that his country needed more resources for air defence, particularly against ballistic missiles.

Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for more than four years with Western assistance.

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