LONDON– Russian drone strikes and bombs eliminated a minimum of 3 individuals in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, local authorities there stated, although Moscow’s most current drone and rocket battery somewhere else was dramatically smaller sized than coming before evenings.
The Kharkiv Regional Armed force Management stated in a message to Telegram that an additional 60 individuals were hurt by Russian assaults overnight, that included making use of Iranian-designed Shahed assault drones, first-person sight commercial-style drones and KAB assisted bombs.
Kharkiv– Ukraine’s 2nd biggest city with a pre-war populace of around 1.4 million– rests simply 20 miles from the Russian boundary. That distance has actually seen the city pounded throughout Russia’s full-blown intrusion.
Kharkiv has actually likewise encountered extreme current assaults as Moscow increased its drone and rocket project, plus as Russian pressures apparently mass along the neighboring boundary and intimidate brand-new attacks.
A fireman strolls past a scorched auto complying with a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 11, 2025.
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In other places on Tuesday evening, a minimum of 5 individuals were hurt by Russian shelling in the southerly Kherson area, neighborhood authorities stated in a message to Telegram. Someone was likewise eliminated and an additional hurt by Russian shelling in the eastern Donetsk area, authorities stated.
Ukraine’s flying force stated Russia released 85 drones and one rocket right into the nation overnight, of which 49 drones were obliterated or otherwise counteracted. Effects were taped in 14 places, with drone particles dropping in 2 various other places, the flying force stated.
Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a Tuesday evening article to Telegram that he had actually talked with Protection Priest Rustem Umerov regarding “our initiatives to respond to drones, secure versus projectiles and strengthen our air protection.” The conference followed Monday evening’s enormous Russian assault on cities consisting of Kyiv.
” The Russians have actually once more utilized ballistic projectiles from North Korea,” Zelenskyy stated of Monday evening’s assaults. “We are likewise tracking proof that Russian-Iranian drone innovations have actually infected North Korea. This is very unsafe both for Europe and for East and Southeast Asia.”
” The much longer this battle advances our area, the extra war innovations progress and the higher the hazard will certainly be to everybody,” Zelenskyy included. “This need to be resolved currently– not when countless updated Shahed drones and ballistic projectiles start to intimidate Seoul and Tokyo.”
Russia’s Protection Ministry, at the same time, stated its pressures obliterated 33 Ukrainian drones over night right into Wednesday early morning.
In Russia’s Tambov area– around 260 miles southeast of Moscow and 230 miles from the closest Ukrainian-controlled area– acting guv Evgeny Pervyshov stated on Telegram that a fire burst out in the community of Kotovsk because of dropping drone particles. “The scenario is in control,” Pervyshov created.
However Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Counter-Disinformation Facility running as component of Ukraine’s National Safety and Protection Council, stated in a Telegram article that a nitroglycerins plant in the location was struck by drones.
Kovalenko declared that the Tambov gunpowder plant had actually been compelled to put on hold procedures by the strike. “It generates gunpowder utilized for numerous kinds of little arms, weapons and rocket systems,” he stated of the center.
This handout photo taken and launched by the Ukrainian Emergency Situation Solution on June 11, 2025 reveals a burning structure complying with a drone assault in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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” The business is among the primary providers of nitroglycerins for the Russian military,” Kovalenko included. “With the start of a full-blown battle in Ukraine, manufacturing at the plant has actually boosted dramatically.”
The guv of Russia’s western Belgorod area stated 6 individuals were likewise hurt by a Ukrainian drone strike on a manufacturing facility in the community of Shebekino. All were hospitalized, the guv stated in a message to Telegram.
