Russian attacks kill two in Ukraine's Kharkiv, damage infrastructure on the Danube


Destroyed vehicles at the site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 25, 2026. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

March 26 (Reuters) - Russian attacks ⁠killed two people in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv ⁠and the region around it and a strike on the ‌Danube port of Izamil damaged port facilities and energy infrastructure, officials said.

Prosecutors in Kharkiv region, in a statement on Telegram early on Thursday, said a woman ​injured in an attack on the city ⁠of Kharkiv had died of ⁠her injuries in hospital.

They said nine people were injured in strikes ⁠on ‌two districts of the city, a frequent target of Russian forces, 30 km (18 km) from the border.

Prosecutors also ⁠said a Russian drone killed a man in his ​car in a ‌district closer to the border.

Local officials in the Danube ⁠port of Izmail ​in southwestern Ukraine said the town had come under attack and there had been damage to the port and to energy facilities.

On the ⁠Russian side of the border, the regional ​governor in Belgorod Region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said Ukrainian drones had killed an 18-year-old man on a motorcycle in a village near the border ⁠and a woman in her car in the town of Graivoron.

Belgorod has frequently come under attack from Ukrainian forces in the four-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said ​17 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted and ⁠destroyed on their way to the capital over the course of ​Wednesday.

The downing of Russian drones targeting the ‌capital occurs quite frequently, with the ​number of those attacking varying widely.

Reuters could not independently verify the accounts.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Editing by Michael Perry)

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