Russia’s largest attack on Kharkiv since start of full-scale invasion kills at least 3, injures 22 people, including children (Photos)

UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Jun 7 — Between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m., Russia launched a mass airstrike on Kharkiv, hitting the city with 53 Shahed drones, four glide bombs, and a missile. Russian attacks killed at least three people and injured at least 22, including a 14-year-old girl and a baby of 1,5 months, reported local authorities.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city that’s located about 19 miles from the Russian border, is targeted by Moscow often. City mayor Ihor Terekhov called today’s strike the “largest Russian attack since the start of the full-scale invasion.”

Gwara Media’s journalists have been to two impact sites, in Osnovianskyi and Kyivskyi districts of the city, and documented the consequences of multiple Russian attacks.

In the Osnoviaskyi district, the Russian drone hit the upper stories of the 9-story building, setting on fire 12 apartments on the 7th, 8th, and 9th floors. The flames spread across an area of 600 м².

The debris from the explosion fell on a local woman who was then saved from under it by the rescuers.

Liudmyla, a woman living in this high-rise, told Gwara that after her room caught of fire, she’s managed to get out leaving her two cats in the building. “Everything was filled with the smoke,” she said.

Burning apartment in the aftermath of Russian drone attack on Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Liubov Yemets, Gwara Media

Resident of the Osnovianskyi district, hit by the Russian drone attack on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Liubov Yemets, Gwara Media

Residents of the Osnovianskyi district, hit by the Russian drone attack on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Liubov Yemets, Gwara Media

Smoke rising above Kharkiv after Russian large-scale combined attack on the city on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Liubov Yemets, Gwara Media

In the Kyivskyi district, 50 Russian drones, four glide bombs, and a missile hit the territory of a civilian business, setting on fire facilities there and spreading for 10,000 м².

According to the law enforcement, as of 1:55 p.m., six people might be still trapped within one of the facilities of the business, trapped by the rubble after multiple Russian attacks.

In this district, Russian Shahed drones also hit a house; a tree near a residential apartment building; the ground (ffter this strike, an outbuilding caught fire.)

House in Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv, destroyed in Russian airstrike on Kharkiv on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Serhii Prokopenko, Gwara Media

An embroidered picture hanging in the house destroyed by the Russian air attack on Kharkiv’s Kyivskyi district on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Serhii Prokopenko, Gwara Media

Local sorting out the debris of the house destroyed by the Russian attack on Kyivskyi district on June 7, 2025 / Photo: Serhii Prokopenko, Gwara Media

On Kharkiv’s outskirts, Russia attacked an abandoned cow house with three drones and an open area with five more drones. No one has been injured.

Russian overnight attacks across Ukraine killed at least four people and injured at least 80.

American President Donald Trump claimed the mass attack was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revenge for Ukrainian operation Spiderweb.

Zelenskyy refuted that, calling Putin a murderer.

The rescue operation in the aftermath of the Russian strike on the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv is ongoing.

Cover photo: Building, burning after Russian attack on Kharkiv on June 7, 2025. Osnovianskyi district of the city / Serhii Prokopenko, Gwara Media

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