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Russia strikes an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and 1 person is killed

The strike wounded nine people, including a 6-year-old child, and rescue crews later recovered a body from the destroyed building.

  • On Saturday, June 20, 2026, a Russian 'guided aerial bomb strike' hit a residential area in Kharkiv, killing one person and wounding nine others, according to Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov.
  • Moscow and Kyiv have escalated attacks on each other in recent weeks, following Ukraine's largest drone attack on Moscow two days earlier that sparked fires and hit a major oil refinery.
  • The strike on Kharkiv's Kholodnogirsky district hospitalised five of the nine wounded, according to Oleg Synegubov, the head of the regional military administration, while authorities reported additional injuries in Kherson's Zelenivka and Korabelny districts.
  • Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed its air defences shot down 187 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles overnight across the country, as both nations continued intense aerial bombardment campaigns.
  • Search operations continued in Kharkiv following the fatal building collapse. Terekhov confirmed, "Sadly, during search and rescue operations, the body of a person who was killed was found under the rubble of the destroyed building.
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On Saturday, Russian teleguided bombs hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, causing at least one death and nine injuries.

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ТСН.ua broke the news on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
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