Among the wounded is a 17-year-old girl, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration. He also reported a large fire and damage to apartment blocks and private houses.
The Telegram channel "De u Kharkovi | Kharkiv" published footage of the aftermath, which appeared to show a damaged kindergarten building. Syniehubov said the strike set cars alight and damaged 10 garages.
Kharkiv and the surrounding region come under daily Russian shelling. Overnight on 26 October, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service, the Kharkivsky, Loznovsky and Chuhuivsky districts were hit and fires broke out.
In early October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Financial Times that Russia intended to step up strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine in the near future, especially in large cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv.
On the same day, Russian strikes also hit other Ukrainian cities. In the Donetsk region, one person was killed and ten wounded, including a 13-year-old girl, in strikes on Yasnohirka, according to Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk regional military administration. A drone strike on Pavlohrad killed one person and injured seven. According to Oleksandr Hanha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, five of the injured were hospitalised, with two 10-year-old girls and a 37-year-old woman in serious condition.
One strike hit a petrol station in the Zaporizhzhia region, wounding two people, the regional military administration said.