Massive nighttime attack on Kharkiv: more than 20 strikes, casualties reported

Massive nighttime attack on Kharkiv: more than 20 strikes, casualties reported

On the night of July 25, Kharkiv suffered one of the most powerful combined attacks since the start of the full-scale war. Over the span of three hours, Russian forces carried out more than 20 strikes on the city, using guided aerial bombs, ballistic missiles, and kamikaze drones of the ‘Shahed’ type.

This was reported by the city mayor Ihor Terekhov.

According to him, the shelling damaged residential apartment buildings, transport infrastructure facilities, roads, the contact network, a city boiler room, and a civilian enterprise. In the Kyiv district of the city, at least seven fires broke out, which firefighters are extinguishing as of the morning.

At least five people were injured, including three rescuers. They sustained injuries during the second strike while already working at the site of the first shelling. “The enemy targets those who rescue. This is terrorism,” Terekhov emphasized.

Despite the attack, city services — energy workers, utility workers, rescuers, road workers — have been working to eliminate the consequences from the very first minutes.

“Kharkiv is more than a city. It’s people who do not give up and will never give up,” the mayor stated.