Russia launches the largest drone attack on Kharkif, Ukraine

The mayor said that at least three people were killed and 21 wounded in the largest Russian drone attack on the second largest city in Ukraine in Kharkiv.

Ihor Terekhov said Russia overnight fired 48 drones, two missiles and four sliding bombs in an attack described as “open terror.”

It comes after a huge wave of drones and missiles via Ukraine Thursday evening. Moscow said that the strikes were in response to the “terrorist attacks conducted by the Kiev regime”, after Ukraine’s sudden raids on Russian air bases last Sunday.

Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian officials launched conflicting accounts about when a prisoner will be agreed in the previous talks.

The mayor of the city said that about 18 residential buildings and 13 other homes in Kharkif were injured during the night during the Friday attack. He added that a 14 -year -old girl and girl among the injured.

Local authorities said that two people were killed in Russian strikes on Jacon in southern Ukraine.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Siphai Al -Halfa urged the pressure on Moscow and take “more steps to strengthen Ukraine” in response to Russia’s latest attacks.

Six people were killed and 80 were wounded throughout Ukraine the night beforeWhen Russia attacked the country with more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles.

Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski described the attack as a “huge blow to cities and ordinary life” in “almost all Ukraine”, including the capital Kiev.

The strikes also struck the northern city of Chernkif, as well as Lutsk and Ternobel in the northwest, where Moscow claimed military sites.

during The latest round of direct talks in Istanbul earlier this weekThe two warring sides agreed to exchange all the patients of the war and the wounded, between the ages of 25 years, as well as the bodies of 12,000 soldiers.

On Saturday, the chief negotiator in Moscow at the meeting, Vladimir Medinski, claimed that Ukraine “postponed both the acceptance of the bodies and the exchange of war prisoners for an unspecified period.”

But Petro Yatsensko, from Ukraine’s coordination of the heads of headquarters, said this was “incorrect” and said that the exchange was rescheduled next week.

A statement from his office added that the preparations were under exchange.

Ukraine accused Moscow of playing “dirty games”, and claimed that Russia was not adhering to the agreed standards to exchange the captive of the information.

No specific dates for exchanges have not been announced.

Medinsky also claimed that the bodies of more than thousands of deaths of Ukrainian soldiers were transferred to an agreed point of exchange, but Ukrainian officials have never arrived.

Midinski wrote on social media, and a list of 640 prisoners of war was delivered to Ukraine “for the start of the stock exchange.”

These bars came over the past night after the strikes of Ukrainian drones targeted Russian strategic warplanes in four deep air bases inside Russia.

The SBU security service said that at least 40 Russian aircraft were struck during the so -called “Operation Spider’s Web” last Sunday.

Ukraine says it used 117 drones that were first smuggled to Russia, then placed inside a wooden cabin fixed on the back of the trucks and hidden it under the surfaces that are separated remotely.

The trucks were then transported to sites near the Russian air bases by drivers who were not apparently familiar with their goods. Then the drones were launched remotely.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the Ukrainians gave Russian President Vladimir Putin “a reason to enter and bomb hell from them last night.”

Russia has launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It is currently controlling about 20 % of Ukrainian lands, including the Crimean Peninsula that was included in 2014.