14 Killed, 143 Injured in Week of Strikes on Kharkiv Region

Fourteen people were killed and 143 others injured in the Kharkiv region over the past week, as Russian forces struck 109 settlements, including the regional capital.

The casualties included 13 injured children and two child fatalities – a 15-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl. The head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, confirmed the attacks on his Telegram channel.

“The enemy actively used various types of weapons against the Kharkiv region: four missiles, two multiple launch rocket systems, 49 guided aerial bombs, 17 ‘Geran-2’ type drones, 66 ‘Molniya’ type drones, 51 FPV drones,” Syniehubov said, adding that the type of the remaining 195 drones was still being determined.

Widespread damage across districts

The Bohodukhiv district sustained some of the heaviest damage during the week, according to Syniehubov’s report.

The strikes hit six apartment buildings and 25 private homes, along with a dormitory and a medical facility, damaging power lines, two administrative buildings, a civilian enterprise and railway infrastructure.

Additional losses in Bohodukhiv included five gas stations, six shops and a cafe, as well as a farm, a hangar and two warehouses. Sixteen private vehicles, two buses, two trucks, a trailer and a tractor were also damaged in the district.

In the Kupiansk district, authorities documented damage to two apartment buildings, 18 private houses, and two outbuildings. The strikes also hit power lines, a gas station, a grain storage facility, and 10 vehicles.

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Kharkiv city sustains heavy losses

In the city of Kharkiv, three apartment buildings and 89 private houses were damaged.

Commercial and civilian infrastructure sustained losses as well, with four gas stations, a shop, and a car wash damaged. The strikes also affected non-residential buildings, and six outbuildings, as well as a warehouse.

Vehicle losses included 21 passenger vehicles and 21 trucks, along with a tram struck during the shelling.Following continuous Russian attacks, Kharkiv opened its first underground kindergarten on May 27, with Mayor Ihor Terekhov saying the city has already built 10 underground schools and converted a metro station into a classroom, aiming to keep children learning despite ongoing Russian strikes.

“I don’t want our enemy to take away our children’s childhood,” Terekhov said, adding that a second underground school opened in Pechenihy, in the Kharkiv region.

Since the full-scale invasion in 2022, Russia has killed more than 707 Ukrainian children, and trafficking or forcibly transferred more than 35,000.

Emergency response and frontline clashes

Throughout the week, emergency service units were called in to extinguish 79 fires caused by the shelling, according to the regional administration.

Crews also neutralized 256 explosive devices found across affected areas. Syniehubov noted that one additional person was injured after an explosive device detonated.

Along the front line, 1,834 combat engagements took place during the same period. 

Kyiv suffers one of the ‘worst attacks’ amid broader wave of attacks

Overnight on Sunday, Russia launched 419 aerial weapons at the capital, including 23 ballistic missiles and six anti-ship missiles that Ukrainian air defenses failed to intercept entirely.

The missile and drone barrage killed at least 11 people and injured more than 46, including three children, with the heaviest destruction reported in the Podilskyi and Darnytskyi districts.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko declared Tuesday, July 7 a Day of Mourning as rescue operations continued, with many more citizens still trapped under the rubble.

Russian attacks killed at least 1,270 civilians and injured more than 6,850 others across Ukraine between December 2025 and May 2026, according to the UN, citing a 40% surge in Ukrainian civilian casualties over the previous year.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk attributed the surge largely to Russia’s expanded use of long-range missiles and drones, framing the latest Kyiv attacks as one of the deadliest strikes on the capital since the beginning of the war.