Overview
- Russian forces deployed some 215 drones and missiles overnight in the largest coordinated strike on Kharkiv since February 2022.
- The barrage damaged 18 apartment blocks and 13 private homes, with local officials reporting injuries to a baby and a 14-year-old girl.
- Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted 87 drones and seven missiles, as firefighters and rescue teams combed debris for survivors.
- A later wave of aerial bombs struck the city center, causing at least one additional death and wounding five more civilians.
- Negotiations to end the war have made no progress amid mutual accusations of sabotaging a planned prisoner and fallen soldier exchange and heightened tensions after Ukraine’s June 1 raid on Russian airfields.