The most massive attack on Kharkiv: June 7, 2025

Kharkiv, June 7, 2025. The aftermath of the most massive attack on Kharkiv since the start of the full-scale war.

In the video: a panorama of the city, black smoke above the horizon, upper floors destroyed by a drone are smoking, rescuers are carrying an injured person, utility workers are cleaning up near the entrance, rescuers are looking at the destroyed floors, medics, a State Emergency Service tent, a woman in a damaged room, people on a playground, construction debris under the building, a destroyed balcony and window, local residents cleaning up the aftermath of destroyed and damaged private homes, a street, traces of destruction, utility workers on a truck covering the roof with plastic sheeting, a destroyed courtyard, smoke. Part of the video is without sound.

Interviews: Alona Lukyanova, local resident; Igor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv; Vladislav Karpov, representative of the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office; Yevgen Vasilenko, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Kharkiv Region; local residents Iryna Ivanenko, Serhiy Rudenko, Ruslana Sheveleva.

Background: In Kharkiv, starting at 3 a.m. on June 7, 2025, more than 50 explosions were heard within two hours. Russian drones, missiles, and aerial bombs struck the city. There are reports of hits in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv on a business, a private home, and the grounds of a higher education institution. In the Osnovyanskyi district, a high-rise building was hit. There are wounded and one person killed. Fires broke out. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov called this Russian attack on the city the most powerful since the invasion began.