Russian forces continued their bombardment of Ukrainian cities on Saturday, July 11, launching a daytime drone strike on a civilian enterprise in Kharkiv and a ballistic missile attack on infrastructure in Odesa, resulting in multiple casualties.
In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Russian troops deployed an “Italmas” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to strike the Nemyshlianskyi district.
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Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov confirmed the attack targeted the territory of a civilian enterprise. According to Terekhov, the initial casualty count stood at three, but the number of injured subsequently rose to seven as emergency personnel cleared the area and provided medical assistance.
Oleh Synehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, added that the kinetic impact of the drone strike caused significant property damage, partially destroying a warehouse facility and damaging seven vehicles parked on the premises.
Ballistic strike on Odesa
Concurrently, the southern port city of Odesa came under a ballistic missile attack on Saturday morning.
At approximately 10:45 a.m. local time, the Ukrainian Air Force issued an urgent warning regarding the threat of ballistic weapons originating from the south, specifically tracking a high-speed missile inbound toward Odesa.
Serhii Lysak, head of the military administration, confirmed that the Russian projectile struck an infrastructure facility in the city. “The enemy attacked infrastructure. Preliminarily, there are casualties,” Lysak reported on Telegram, though exact figures on the number of injured were not immediately released.
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Later, Oleg Kipper, head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, reported on Telegram, that Russians had attacked a civilian infrastructure facility in Odesa, killing two people and injuring another man.
“As a result of the missile strike on Odesa, according to preliminary data, unfortunately, two people were killed. Another person was injured: a 24-year-old man sustained shrapnel wounds,” the official said.
According to him, a civilian infrastructure facility was hit.
A day of nationwide bombardment
The daytime attacks on Kharkiv and Odesa followed a wave of intense bombardments across the country. Earlier on Saturday morning, Russian forces launched targeted drone strikes on Ukraine’s southern and northern regions. In the Korabelnyi district of Kherson, the casualty toll from a morning drone assault rose to four after a 53-year-old man sought medical treatment for explosive trauma and shrapnel wounds to his back.
Simultaneously, the northern Chernihiv region came under attack from Russian UAVs. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) reported that drone strikes sparked fires in the Novhorod-Siverskyi and Koriukivka districts, injuring one person and damaging a civilian vehicle and a residential building.
These localized drone operations followed a massive overnight ballistic missile attack on the capital. During the early hours of Saturday, Russian forces targeted Kyiv, utilizing what preliminary assessments suggest were high-speed Iskander-M or S-300/S-400 missiles launched from Russia’s Bryansk region.
The National Police of Ukraine confirmed that 11 people, including a child, were injured in the strikes on the capital, with at least three victims requiring hospitalization.
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