At least 18 high-rise buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine, were damaged by Russian military attacks overnight, the mayor reported Sunday.

Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said.

Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, wounding 21 people and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

A Russian strike on the evening of 21 September damaged 18 apartment buildings in the city of Kharkiv. Source: Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv, on the air of the national 24/7 newscast, writes the Kharkiv City Council Details: One house suffered very serious damage,

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said.

Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said.

The attack damaged civilian infrastructure and private homes. The MIA reported that 13 people were injured in the Russian attack, including three minors. Emergency services put out a car fire and extinguished burning dry grass at two different locations.

Russian troops once again launched guided bombs on Kharkiv. Three districts of the city came under attack, with 15 people injured, according to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office and Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov.

Russian forces launched a guided aerial bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv on Saturday evening and struck an apartment block, leaving at least 12 civilians injured. Source: Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast State Administration;