During the night of January 24, Russian forces carried out a massive drone attack on Kharkiv. Residential buildings and social facilities were hit, leaving 19 people injured.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the city was under attack for nearly two and a half hours, with Russia launching 25 Shahed-type drones. Strikes targeted high-rise apartment buildings, private homes, a dormitory housing internally displaced people, as well as a hospital and a maternity ward.
The attacks sparked fires, with apartments and houses burning. There are wounded residents, and some people lost their homes overnight. Emergency services, medics, police, municipal workers, and volunteers are working at the impact sites.
According to the Kharkiv regional police, the Industrialnyi and Nemyshlianskyi districts were hit. Multi-storey and private residential buildings, a dormitory, and two medical facilities were damaged, and fires broke out. As of 6:00 a.m., 19 people had sustained various injuries. Among them is a 12-year-old boy who suffered an acute stress reaction. All relevant services have been deployed to assist victims and document war crimes.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that in the Industrialnyi district, a balcony of a nine-storey building, apartments on the fourth floor of residential buildings, and a commercial facility caught fire. Five people, including one child, were rescued from a four-storey building. Dormitory and medical facility buildings were also damaged. In the Nemyshlianskyi district, a private residential house caught fire.
In total, 134 rescuers and 34 units of emergency equipment were involved in eliminating the consequences of the attack, along with National Police officers, medics, volunteers, and city utility services. Psychologists from the State Emergency Service are working at the scene.