Donald Trump has said Ukrainians gave Vladimir Putin a reason to “bomb the hell out of them” after Russia’s retaliatory drone attacks.
Russia attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight using drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing at least three people and injuring 22, including a one-and-a-half-month-old baby, the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said.
In Kherson, a Russian strike on a high-rise building killed a couple, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, is located just a few dozen kilometres from the Russian border and has been under constant Russian shelling during more than three years of war.
“Kharkiv is currently experiencing the most powerful attack since the start of the full-scale war,” Terekhov said in a post o