A Russian drone strike on a farm in northeast Ukraine overnight into Friday sparked a fire that killed some 13,000 pigs, emergency service officials said.

Ukraine's state emergency service said the Russian drone attack hit a "farming enterprise in the Novovodolazka community" in the Kharkiv region. A worker at the farm was injured.

Photos released by the service showed pig carcasses piled up in cramped sheds that were partly burned down, some with their roofs shattered.

A farmer gathers surviving piglets at a farm hit by a Russian drone strike on Oct. 3, 2025, in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Viktoriia Yakymenko/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

The pigs were held in eight stalls spanning just over 140,000 square feet, all of which burned down in t

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