At least six dead after attacks between Russia and Ukraine

Another 38 people were injured in the attack, said Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov. Four aerial bombs were fired at the city, damaging residential buildings, shops and public transport stops, said Kharkiv Region Governor Oleh Syniehubov. He said four of the injured were in serious condition.

And Russian authorities said three people were killed in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Sunday.

Among the dead were two people killed by debris that fell on them when five Ukrainian missiles were fired in Sevastopol, a city in Crimea annexed by Russia, said Mikhail Razvozhaev, the city’s Moscow-appointed governor. Twenty-two people were injured, he said.

One person was also killed and three injured in the Russian region of Belgorod on the border with Ukraine when three Ukrainian drones attacked the town of Grayvoron, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

President Volodmyr Zelensky said last month that Ukraine urgently needs at least seven more Patriot missile systems to counter Russian attacks on the power grid and civilian areas, as well as on military targets with devastating glide bombs that cause widespread destruction.

Russia also continued to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight with a new missile and drone attack, officials in Kyiv said. The attacks damaged energy facilities in the southeast and west and injured at least two workers.

Ukraine is battling a new wave of power outages after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure began three months ago and knocked out half the country’s electricity generation capacity. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 12 of the 16 missiles and all 13 drones launched by Russia, the air force said.

State-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo said the strikes had damaged equipment at plants in southeastern Zaporizhia and the western Lviv region. Two energy workers were injured in Zaporizhia when a fire broke out at an energy facility, according to the region’s governor Ivan Fedorov.

With no major changes reported along the 1,000-kilometer-long front line and a recent advance by Kremlin forces in eastern and northeastern Ukraine achieving only minor success, both sides have now targeted infrastructure and sought to limit the other’s ability to fight in a war now in its third year.