A recent drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, resulted in two deaths and thirty-eight injuries. The assault caused fires in residential buildings and damaged infrastructure. Officials consider these retaliatory strikes amid ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Russian forces launched a new drone assault across Ukraine overnight on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 64 others, Ukrainian officials said. One of the hardest-hit areas was the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine,