The strike was conducted using up to seven Iranian-made Shahed drones, the Ukrainska Pravda website reported.
There were two hits, one on a vocational school and another on downtown Kharkiv, officials said.
As a result, about a half of the vocational school building was destroyed, with two floors collapsing, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
There were no people inside, according to preliminary reports.
Meanwhile, the strike on the city centre injured one person, after three UAVs hit a sports complex and damaged a two-story building, Britain’s The Guardian newspaper reported.
Also during the night, the Russian capital Moscow was attacked by drones, with one of them striking a skyscraper in the Moscow City business centre, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The same building was hit during a previous attack overnight on Sunday, according to PAP.
Tuesday’s strike damaged the business tower’s glass façade at the 20th-floor level, Ukrainska Pravda reported, noting that the 20th floor houses Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development.
It is at least the fifth time that unmanned aerial vehicles have reached the Russian capital since May when two drones came down over the Kremlin, The Guardian reported.
Meanwhile, the number of people injured in Russia’s missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Monday had risen to 81, including seven children, according to officials.
Elsewhere, four people died and 18 were injured in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region over the past 24 hours, while two people were killed and three injured in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s state broadcaster Suspilne reported, as quoted by The Guardian.
Ukraine continues counteroffensive in east and south
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continued their summer counteroffensive on Monday, attacking northwest and southwest of the Russian-held city of Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region, as well as in the south, towards the cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a US think tank.
Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had retaken nearly 15 square km of territory in the south and in the east of the country from Russian occupation in the past week.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Tuesday is day 524 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, Ukrainska Pravda, The Guardian, ISW
