In brief: Russian drone attacks struck residential neighborhoods in Derhachi in Kharkiv region and Hlukhiv in Sumy region overnight and early Saturday, Nov. 14, injuring 10 people. In Derhachi, strikes damaged six homes and injured three adults while leaving four children with acute stress reactions. In Hlukhiv, a drone hit a private home, critically injuring a nine-year-old boy who is in intensive care alongside his grandmother, before a repeat strike wounded a responding police officer.
Russian drone strikes hit residential areas in Derhachi in the Kharkiv region and Hlukhiv in the Sumy region overnight and early Saturday, Nov. 14, injuring 10 people, regional authorities reported.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, incoming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) struck residential blocks in Derhachi, injuring three adults and leaving four children suffering from acute stress reactions, Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Syniehubov announced.
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The injured adults include two women aged 54 and 56, as well as a 61-year-old man.
Medical personnel also provided psychological and medical assistance to four children aged four, nine, 12, and 13 who experienced acute stress reactions following the explosions.
Syniehubov reported that the strike damaged six private residential houses, four utility outbuildings, and two passenger vehicles across the town.
Attack on Hlukhiv
In the neighboring Sumy region, a Russian strike drone hit a private residential house in the border town of Hlukhiv on Saturday morning, critically injuring a child and wounding two adults, the Sumy Regional Military Administration reported.
The initial impact wounded a local woman and her nine-year-old grandson.
Regional officials confirmed that the boy sustained severe blast and shrapnel injuries and was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit in serious condition.
While emergency responders and law enforcement officers were working at the damaged residence, Russian forces executed a repeat “double-tap” drone strike on the same location, wounding a police officer who had arrived to assist the victims.
Ukraine’s overnight drone interceptions
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian forces launched 96 strike drones against Ukrainian territory starting Friday evening, Nov. 13.
Ukrainian air defense units, electronic warfare detachments, and mobile fire groups neutralized 81 of the incoming drones, including 52 jet-powered models.
Despite the interceptions, military officials recorded direct drone hits across eight locations, while falling debris from downed platforms caused localized damage in two additional areas.
Friday’s deadly attacks in Zaporizhzhia
The overnight strikes follow a series of deadly Russian attacks on the southern Zaporizhzhia region on Friday, Nov. 13, which killed two people and injured at least 50 others, Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Head Mykhailo Semikin reported.
On Friday morning, Russian strikes killed a 17-year-old boy in a residential area, and a man trapped under rubble at an industrial facility in the Kosmichnyi district, before hitting a five-story apartment building, wounding 50 people, including eight children.
A member of the Kobra municipal rescue service died later on Friday when a concrete slab collapsed on him while he was clearing rubble at the strike site, while a woman severely wounded in a Thursday attack on public transport in Zaporizhzhia district succumbed to her injuries in the hospital, bringing the two-day death toll in the region to four.
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