Russian missiles hit Kharkiv homes, eight injured

Russian forces struck Kharkiv with about ten Banderol missiles on Monday evening, injuring eight people, two of them seriously, and destroying part of a four-storey apartment block, the Kharkiv regional administration said.

Why it matters: An evening strike on residential blocks in Ukraine's second city, hours after President Trump conceded both sides had breached his announced energy ceasefire, underlines that the fighting is continuing at full intensity while the truce terms remain unseen in Kyiv.

Data as of Monday evening, October 12, 2026. TSN report, in Ukrainian, opened and read in full, citing Kharkiv regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov, a Ukrainian official and a party to the conflict; the account is not independently corroborated, grade C. Developing item, 2 to 3 sentences by design.

Russian forces carried out a mass strike on Kharkiv on Monday evening, preliminarily with ten Banderol missiles, injuring eight people, two of them seriously, Kharkiv regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov said, in an account reported by TSN that has not been independently corroborated. In the Kholodnohirskyi district a strike destroyed an entire entrance section of a four-storey residential building and damaged at least ten private houses, while in the Shevchenkivskyi district a five-storey block was hit, a bank premises on the ground floor caught fire, and six cars burned.

Rescue work was continuing at the sites and people may remain under the rubble of the destroyed buildings, Syniehubov said. The strike is separate from the overnight Russian attack on Naftogaz gas facilities in the Kharkiv region reported earlier on Monday.

Russian missiles hit Kharkiv homes, eight injured

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