A pre-dawn Russian drone strike on a residential block in Kharkiv killed seven people, including a one-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, and wounded 23 others, according to Ukrainian officials. Rescue teams worked through the morning to pull survivors from the five-storey building, parts of which collapsed and caught fire after multiple Shahed-type drones hit the site. The attack formed part of what Ukraine’s air force called Russia’s largest drone barrage since early August, involving roughly 140 drones and four missiles. Air-defence units said they downed 88 drones, but strikes were recorded at 25 locations across six regions. In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a separate ballistic-missile strike killed three people and injured 23, bringing the nationwide death toll from the overnight assault to at least ten. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the Kharkiv strike as “demonstrative and cynical,” noting that it coincided with his trip to Washington, where he and several European leaders met U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss a potential settlement to the war. The timing underscored Kyiv’s warning that rewarding Moscow with concessions would only embolden further attacks. Russia has not commented on the strikes but maintains it does not target civilians.