UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Oct. 2 — During September, Russian troops hit Kharkiv 34 times with air attacks, injuring eight people, with the energy infrastructure suffering the most among the property damages, said Ihor Terekhov, Kharkiv mayor. 

Russians used Molniya-1 and Shahed-type drones for attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest city, located just 19 miles from the border with Russia.

“September started relatively quietly, but, at the end, the intensity of the enemy’s attacks increased,” Terekhov said, adding that Russian attacks also damaged several educational institutions, businesses, cars, and residential buildings. 

Russian airstrikes on energy infrastructure over the past day led to blackouts in Chernihiv oblast. Russian drones hit Slavutych energy objects with 20 drones, causing a power disruption at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. 

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