Ukraine-Russia war latest: Three children among 27 wounded in Russian drone strike on Kharkiv
At least three children were among 20 people wounded as a result of a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv overnight, which damaged apartments and a kindergarten.
Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones over the weekend, forcing the shutdown of airports in Moscow and throwing Russian air travel in disarray.
Russia said its air defences shot down 120 Ukrainian drones during the nighttime attacks, and another 39 on Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, Russia’s authorities have stopped reporting on the number of deaths nationwide in an apparent bid to conceal losses from Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
The Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) did not report demographic data in its January to May 2025 “socioeconomic situation in Russia” report, said Meduza, a Russian-language news outlet operating from Latvia.
The Institute for the Study of War said withholding death figures was “an attempt to obfuscate Russia’s ongoing demographic problems” and “likely also aims to obscure the Russian military’s high personnel loss rates”.
