Occupiers use kamikaze drones to attack Kharkiv
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — THURSDAY, 6 2022, 10:16
Russia has used kamikaze drones to launch strikes on industrial facilities in the city of Kharkiv on the night of 5-6 October. Three people have been hospitalised in Kharkiv Oblast in total; there were no fatalities reported.
Source: Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; press service of the Prosecutor’s Office in Kharkiv Oblast
Quote from Syniehubov: "At night, occupiers launched several strikes on industrial facilities in Osnovianskyi district in Kharkiv. Reportedly, Russians used kamikaze drones."
Details: According to Syniehubov, there are no injured people. The Prosecutor’s Office in Kharkiv Oblast reported that shells had hit the premises of the facility in Osnovianskyi district approximately at 02:30 and 04:40. There was a fire that covered an area of 500 square metres; a one-storey office building and a roof of a four-storey non-residential building were damaged.
Syniehubov added that Russians also had attacked Kupiansk and Vovchansk districts in Kharkiv Oblast, as well as the settlements of Bohodukhiv and Kharkiv districts: Udy, Veterynarne, Strilecha, Krasne, etc. As a result of the attack on Kupiansk district, three men have been hospitalised.
Previously: Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv, said that Russian forces had shelled an infrastructure facility in Osnovianskyi district in Kharkiv on the night of 5-6 October.
Background:
Ukrainian air defence units have destroyed nine Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in Ukraine’s south. Russia used these drones to attack Ukraine on the night of 5-6 October.
Ukraine’s air defence detachments shot down six kamikaze drones that attacked Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts during the night of 5-6 October.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 15 Russian UAVs over the past day.
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