Strikes on schools, service stations, and homes — the enemy massively shelled Kharkiv and 10 settlements in the region

Kharkiv and at least 10 settlements in the region 8 November were hit by a series of enemy drone strikes — just during the morning there were four impacts recorded in the Shevchenkivskyi and Kyivskyi districts of the city. The enemy continues to shell the region daily, and over the course of the day residential buildings, infrastructure facilities, and vehicles came under attack. Five people were hurt in the shelling, including those wounded.

The strikes were reported on his Telegram channel by Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov. At 3:17 at night he wrote about a UAV of the “Molniya” type striking in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv.

“An impact by a UAV of the ‘Molniya’ type was recorded in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv. A car at the strike site is burning,” Ihor Terekhov wrote.

In the morning of 8 November Terekhov reported another impact — this time an enemy drone hit the roof of a high-rise in the Kyivskyi district; there were no casualties then. But later the mayor reported a repeated strike by a combat drone in the same district. According to preliminary information, one person was wounded. Later Terekhov wrote about another combat-drone strike in the Shevchenkivskyi district, the consequences of which were still being determined at that time.

Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleg Syniehubov added that during the day Kharkiv and 10 settlements in the region came under enemy strikes. Five people were injured in the shelling: in Kharkiv a 59-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man were injured, a 80-year-old woman suffered an acute stress reaction, in Lozova a 16-year-old girl was injured, and in Zlatopil a 44-year-old woman was injured.

According to Syniehubov, the enemy used different types of weapons across Kharkiv region:

7 missiles

1 UAVs of the “Molniya” type

12 FPV drones

55 UAVs (type being determined)

Dozens of civilian infrastructure objects were damaged. In Kharkiv three apartment buildings, an administrative building, four service-station buildings, 52 cars, and trolleybuses were damaged. In Kupiansk district, power lines were damaged in the village of Vasylenkove, and in the settlement of Shevchenkove an administrative building, 16 private houses, a shop, five buses, and warehouse premises were damaged. In Izyum district in Barvinkove two private houses and two outbuildings were damaged; in Kharkiv district vehicles were damaged in Tsyrkuny, Bezruky, and Derhachi and a civilian enterprise was hit. In Lozova district an educational institution in Lozova, eight private houses, and power lines in Zlatopil were damaged, and in Chuhuiv district a car was damaged in Zarychne.

According to the head of the Regional Military Administration, 199 combat engagements were recorded in Kharkiv region during the day: on the Southern Slobozhanske direction Ukrainian units repelled eight attacks toward Kozacha Lopan, Radkivka, Okhrimivka and in the areas of Vovchansk, Tehelne and Vovchanski Khutory, while on the Kupiansk direction the occupiers did not carry out assault actions.

Evacuation from frontline communities continues

Constant shelling forces Kharkiv residents and regional inhabitants to use evacuation points like the one operating in Lozova. In one day this point alone received over a hundred people, and the total number registered there exceeded 68 thousand.

Earlier Informator reported that Russia killed five people in Donetsk region in one day — three in Kramatorsk and one each in Bilenke and Druzhkivka, and five more were wounded. We also wrote that the RF shelled Kherson and 18 settlements in the region, where two people were wounded and apartment buildings and private houses were damaged. In addition, Informator wrote that Russia struck Dnipropetrovsk region, damaging residential houses and the energy infrastructure of four districts, leaving more than 600 thousand consumers without power.