Russian missile attack in Kharkiv kills at least 10, as Ukraine keeps up drone attacks in Moscow

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· Posted: Aug 18, 2026 7:02 AM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago

A Russian missile attack killed 10 people on Tuesday in a village in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian authorities said.

"This morning the Russians launched a brutal attack on a busy intersection in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region — a location with a post office and stores, surrounded only by residential buildings," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X.

Zelenskyy posted photos of a destroyed building, cars on fire and emergency responders carrying people on stretchers.

"We will definitely respond to this Russian strike," he said. A further 17 people were injured in the attack, the governor of the surrounding region, Oleh Syniehubov, said on the Telegram messaging app.

A Ukrainian law enforcement officer walks past a burned-out car next to a destroyed building following the air attack in Pechenigy, Kharkiv region on Tuesday. (Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images)

There was no immediate public comment from Russia on the attack.

The strike on the village damaged 10 private buildings, a café, a post office, a store and at least seven cars, Syniehubov said.

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Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said that according to preliminary information, Russia used two small Banderol cruise missiles.

A local official told public broadcaster Suspilne that the strikes had hit the central part of the village, where the café, post office and shops are located.

Large-scale drone offensive from Ukraine

Ukraine, meanwhile, launched 620 drones at Moscow and surrounding areas into the early hours ​of Tuesday morning, the capital's mayor said, ​in one of Kyiv's biggest air assaults on the region.

Russian forces downed 180 ⁠of the drones ⁠over the Moscow region and ‌emergency services were working at crash sites, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram, without going into detail on any casualties or damage.

Drones hit a warehouse ⁠of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries and other facilities near Moscow, regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said separately. At least three people, including ‌a 10-year-old girl, were injured in the region, he added.

Vehicles are shown packed into a Gazpromneft petrol station in Moscow on Tuesday. Russian authorities have acknowledged that some regions faces new petrol shortages, due to Ukraine attacks on the country's oil refineries. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)

Wildberries, a frequent target of Kyiv's attacks following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, said drone debris ​hit a wall at the warehouse, causing minor damage.

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