A 15-year-old girl is in critical condition, while two other children sustained minor injuries and are being treated as outpatients, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.
The drones struck multiple neighborhoods in Kharkiv — including the Kholodnohirskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Kyivskyi districts — damaging private homes, a hospital, office buildings, and retail spaces. Emergency responders pulled a man from the rubble of a destroyed home and recovered the body of a woman killed in the blast. Fires broke out at several impact sites, including a blaze covering roughly 100 square meters.
A total of 25 people were injured in the strikes, with some victims suffering from stress-induced trauma, bruises, fractures, and cuts caused by shattered glass and debris, said Dmytro Chubenko, spokesperson for the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov initially reported that 27 people had been injured.
The attacks continued throughout the night, as waves of Shahed drones moved across Ukrainian territory, prompting repeated air raid alerts. Ukraine’s Air Force reported drone groups entering from the Black Sea and flying through Sumy, Chernihiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, and Kyiv oblasts.
Around 10:30 p.m., a Russian drone struck a military hospital in Kharkiv, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported. The strike damaged the hospital building and nearby residential structures. Several wounded Ukrainian soldiers were at the medical facility at the time.
"The deliberate targeting of a Ukrainian medical facility by Russian forces is yet another addition to the long list of vile and cynical crimes committed since the start of the unprovoked invasion," the General Staff said in a statement. "War crimes have no statute of limitations. The evidence will be handed over to international criminal justice authorities."
Authorities issued multiple air raid alerts throughout the night in regions across Ukraine, including Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Kyiv, urging residents to seek shelter as new drone groups were detected en route to major cities like Kharkiv, Kremenchuk, and Myrhorod.
By the early morning hours of March 30, Ukraine’s Air Force continued to monitor incoming drone groups, some of which were flying from the Black Sea toward Odesa Oblast.
At 5:37 a.m., the Air Force lifted the ballistic missile threat warning. The air raid alerts were gradually canceled, though the full extent of the damage across the country is still being assessed.