The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that several groups of attack drones are heading towards the city.
Russian occupation forces attacked Kharkov with attack drones. Explosions thundered in the city, said the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
Local telegram channels write that at least four explosions occurred in Kharkov. The Air Force noted that several groups of enemy drones were heading towards the city at once.
It is worth adding that the alarm was declared in the region at 22:27. Other regions are still calm.
Updated 23:25: According to preliminary data, civilian infrastructure was hit in the city. This was announced by the mayor of Kharkov Igor Terekhov.
“Kharkiv is under attack again. Preliminarily, by suicide bombers. Preliminarily, there was a hit on civilian infrastructure. Information about casualties and destruction is being clarified,” he wrote.
Updated 23:29: A civilian infrastructure facility in the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov was hit, said the head of the Kharkov Regional Police Department Oleg Sinegubov.
At the same time, the head of the Kharkov garrison, Sergei Melnik, said that at the moment there are no enemy UAVs in the airspace of the Kharkov region, but the threat remains. He urged residents not to leave shelters until the all-clear was announced.
Melnyk added that this evening Russian terrorist troops again committed a terrible crime against the Ukrainian people.
“Once again, the Kupyansky district came under fire. At about 21:45, two air bombs hit the hospital in Velikiy Burluk. One was a direct hit, the other fell next to the institution. Now information about the victims is being clarified, but it is known that there are some. All patients hospitals and staff have been evacuated,” he wrote.
Updated 23:36: The air raid warning was announced in the Kharkiv region.
Russian attacks in the Kharkov region
On the evening of Tuesday, January 30, Russian invaders attacked Kharkov with unmanned aerial vehicles. Explosions were heard in the city. Already on the morning of January 31, the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, reported that the enemy was hitting residential areas where there were no military installations. In the Slobodsky district of Kharkov, glass was broken in two high-rise buildings.
A few days ago it became known that a 13-year-old girl who was wounded as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Maly Burluk, Kharkov region, died in the hospital on January 17. She received complex shrapnel wounds and was in a coma for a long time.