Russian forces launched rockets at the city of Kharkiv around 3:00 AM, striking the Slobidskyi district and hitting an educational building, which caught fire but was extinguished by emergency services. Another strike occurred around 4:00 AM that rocked the entire city.
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Russian forces launched rockets at Kharkiv around 3:00 AM, hitting an educational establishment in the Slobidskyi district, with no reported casualties.
A second strike occurred around 4:00 AM affecting the wider city.
Hostilities are ongoing north of Kharkiv and Russian forces attempted a limited ground assault in Kherson Oblast.
Overnight missile attacks on Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv damaged buildings including factories. Rockets and phosphorous bombs struck Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian forces conducted two shelling incidents against Kharkiv overnight.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled the positions of our troops and civilian objects from tanks, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kharkiv, Svitlychne, Ruski Tyshki, Duvanka, Pischane, Verkhniy Saltiv, Korobochkine, Lebiazhe, Petrivske, Nortsivka, and Zalyman. Conducted an airstrike in the Mospanove area.
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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:20:50.200Z
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