Drone hits apartment building in Ukraine's Kharkiv, injures seven, mayor says


Firefighters work at a site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 2, 2025. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

(Reuters) - A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building late on Sunday in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, triggering a fire and injuring eight people, the city's mayor said.

Kharkiv resisted capture in the early days of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and has since been a frequent target of air attacks. A medical centre was damaged in one of several drone strikes in the city on Friday.

Mayor Ihor Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the fire triggered by Sunday's attack spread to several apartments on the top floor of the building.

None of the injured had required hospital treatment, he said. Three other residential buildings were damaged, with well over 100 windows smashed.

Emergency crews were working at the site, the mayor added.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Bogdan Kochubey; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

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