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7 people, including an infant and children, were killed in a drone attack in Kharkiv

As a result of the Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, seven people were killed, including children, and three more people were injured.

This was announced by the head of the RMA, Oleh Syniehubov.

According to him, the bodies of 5 people were found in one of the private houses, among them three children — 7, 4 years old and a baby about 6 months old, in another object — two more dead.

«From 10:46 p.m., the occupiers attacked Kharkiv with kamikaze drones of the Shahed type. Hits were recorded in the Nemyshlyanskyi district of the city. Affected civil infrastructure. There were several large-scale fires. 15 residential private buildings burned to the ground,» he wrote.

Elimination of the consequences continues, the fires are localized.

Updated at 09:37. The whole family died in the fire. Serhii Bolvinov, head of the Investigative Department of the Regional Police, wrote about this.

«The family was held hostage by the fire inside their own house. The man's body is in the corridor of the house, the mother and the children tried to save themselves in the bathroom. We still do not know where the baby's body is. The search is underway,» Serhii Bolvinov wrote.

A 66-year-old man and his 65-year-old wife died in another house. Two women aged 61 and 39, as well as a 45-year-old man, were injured.

It will be recalled that on the night of February 10, the enemy attacked with 31 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type. It was possible to shoot down 23 drones.

It is noted that the occupiers launched 31 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type from the territory of Balaklava and Cape Chauda in the temporarily occupied Crimea and from the Kursk region in the Russian Federation.

Also, in the Mykolaiv region, on February 9 and 10, the Russian military struck the water area and the town of Ochakiv of the Ochakiv community, as well as the village of Chornomorka of the Black Sea community.

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