Russians Attacked Kharkiv with Drones: What Is Known About the Consequences

A Russian drone of the Molniya type hit the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv; a car is burning at the strike site. This is reported by Glavkom, citing Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov.

Around midnight on 8 November, Terekhov reported a strike on a combat drone in the Kyivskyi district of the city. The consequences of the strike at that moment were being clarified. Later, on 03:17, the mayor wrote about a new strike, this time on the Shevchenkivskyi district.

“A car is on fire at the strike site,” noted Terekhov. There were no reports of casualties at that moment.

Drone attacks on other regions

Russian forces continued their attack on Ukraine with combat drones. There were reports of an explosion in Cherkasy, and enemy drones attacked Volyn.

A strike was also recorded in Odesa. According to the Odesa City Military Administration, one person was killed as a result of the attack on the city, infrastructure was damaged. Later the agency reported a fire in a non-residential building in one of the city’s districts. The blast also shattered windows in a neighboring dwelling, with no casualties reported there.

Preliminary strikes on Kharkiv

Kharkiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district has not been spared from Russian attacks before. Over the past weeks the city has repeatedly come under strikes:

16 October, Terekhov reported strikes in the Shevchenkivskyi and Industrial districts, at least two people died in Shevchenkivskyi. Earlier that day a rocket-driven Shahed hit the Oskivianskyi district;

27 October, an enemy drone struck the Shevchenkivskyi district, one person sustained injuries;

5 November, according to Kharkiv Oblast military administration head Oleh Sinehubov, a Russian drone fell in an open area of the Shevchenkivskyi district, no casualties were reported;

7 November, after the Bandera missiles struck Kharkiv, as Terekhov reported, fires broke out. An elderly woman suffered a sharp stress reaction. A day after the shelling of Kharkiv and the region, one person died and four more were injured.

As a reminder, 7 November, Russians shelled Kyiv: a kindergarten was damaged, three people were injured. On the same day Russia struck power lines connecting two nuclear power plants with Kyiv.