Donald Trump has said Ukrainians gave Vladimir Putin a reason to “bomb the hell out them” after Russia’s retaliatory drone attacks.
Russia attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight using drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing at least three people and injuring 22, including a one-and-a-half-month-old baby, the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said.
In Kherson, a Russian strike on a high-rise building killed a couple, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, is located just a few dozen kilometres from the Russian border and has been under constant Russian shelling during more than three years of war.
This photograph shows a smoke rising from a fire following powerful attacks to Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early on June 7. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP)“Kharkiv is currently experiencing the most powerful attack since the start of the full-scale war,” Terekhov said in a post on the Telegram messaging app early on Saturday.
Dozens of explosions were heard in the city through the night and Russian troops were striking simultaneously with missiles, drones and guided aerial bombs, he said.
Multi-storey and private residential buildings, educational and infrastructure facilities were attacked, Terekhov said.
Photos by local authorities and Reuters showed burnt and partially destroyed houses and vehicles, and of rescuers carrying those injured to safety and removing debris.
A firefighter extinguishes a fire at a civilian plant following Russian powerful attacks on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early on June 7, 2025 (Photo: Sergey Bobok/AFP)Multi-storey and private residential buildings, educational and infrastructure facilities were attacked, the city mayor Ihor Terekhov said (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP)One of the Kharkiv’s civilian industrial facilities was attacked by 40 drones, one missile and four bombs, causing a fire, Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said. He added that there may still be people under the rubble.
Russia launched 206 drones, two ballistic and seven other missiles against Ukraine overnight and hit 10 locations, according to the Ukrainian military.
It said Ukraine’s air defence units shot down 87 drones while another 80 drones were lost – in reference to the Ukrainian military using electronic warfare to redirect them – or they were drone simulators that did not carry warheads.
The strikes come after Russia hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early on Friday.
Two people were injured in the Moscow region as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack overnight and on Friday, governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
“Nine drones were shot down overnight and the day before in the skies over the region,” he said in a post on Telegram.
Responding to a question about if Ukraine drone strikes on Russian airfields had changed his view of the cards Zelensky holds, the US President told reporters that they had given Putin a reason to strike them.
He said: “Well, they gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of them last night. That’s the thing I didn’t like about it. When I saw it I said, ‘here we go’.”
During a phone call earlier this week, Putin told Trump Russia “will have to respond” to Ukraine’s bold long-range attack on Russian air bases last week.
Posting on Truth Social after the conversation, the US President said: “We discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides. It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace.
“President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.”
What progress are peace talks making?
Peace talks between Russian and Ukraine delegates have not delivered any significant breakthroughs.
Ukraine has offered an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and a meeting between Zelensky and Putin to break the deadlock. But the Kremlin has effectively rejected a truce and has not compromised on its terms to end the fighting.
Zelensky said Putin is “buying himself time to keep waging war”.
In a post on X yesterday, Ukraine’s president said: “Diplomacy must work, security guarantees must be ensured, and peace must be established. For that, initial steps are needed, particularly a ceasefire. Pressure must be applied on Russia to make that happen and to stop the attacks.”
After a second round of talks on Monday in Istanbul, the two sides again to find a resolution bar a prisoner exchange and committing to the return the bodies of dead soldiers.
Additional reporting by Reuters
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