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Russia Unleashes Most Powerful Drone and Missile Attack on Kharkiv

Zelenskyy has appealed for advanced air defenses to protect civilians following Russia’s heaviest strike on the city

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A view after a Russian attack that hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Firefighters extinguish a fire at a civilian plant following Russian powerful attacks to Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early on June 7, 2025. amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia pummelled Ukraine's second-largest city before dawn on June 7, killing two people in what Kharkiv's mayor described as the "most powerful attack" there since the start of the war. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP)
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Overview

  • Russia launched 215 drones and missiles at Kharkiv overnight in what the local mayor called the city’s most powerful assault of the war, killing at least three people and wounding 21 others.
  • Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted 87 drones and seven missiles during the barrage, but strikes still damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes.
  • The bombardment extended beyond Kharkiv to Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Ternopil and Kherson, where additional civilian casualties and infrastructure damage were reported.
  • A senior German military official said a recent Ukrainian drone raid likely damaged about 10% of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, prompting Moscow’s retaliatory strikes.
  • U.S.-led peace talks have produced no breakthroughs and each side has accused the other of undermining a planned exchange of prisoners and fallen soldiers’ bodies.