Russia Strikes an Apartment Block in Ukraine's City of Kharkiv and 1 Person Is Killed
Local officials said a woman was trapped under rubble as search crews found the body of one victim and treated nine wounded.
- 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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Russia strikes an apartment block in Ukraine’s Kharkiv city, killing 1
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian guided bombs struck an apartment block in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring nine, including a 6-year-old, authorities said Saturday.
Russia strikes an apartment block in Ukraine's city of Kharkiv and 1 person is killed
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian guided bombs struck an apartment block in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring nine, including a 6-year-old, authorities said Saturday.
Russia strikes an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and 1 person is killed
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian bombs struck an apartment building on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a 6-year-old child, authorities said.
At around 04:00 on June 20, Russian troops carried out an airstrike on the Kholodnohirsky district of Kharkiv. The attack killed one person and injured nine others, including children. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleg Synegubov. According to him, the strike damaged a two-story residential building. Five of the injured were hospitalized. Four more people were treated on the spot. One person was a…

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