Russia bombarded Ukraine’s second-largest city with massive strikes in the early hours of Saturday, its mayor said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine.

The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was hit by a Russian glide bomb attack on Saturday, after suffering heavy Russian airstrikes earlier in the day. A 30-year-old woman was killed, Kharkiv's military governor,

Russia carried out a number of missiles, drones and bomb attacks across Ukraine early this morning, killing five people as it retaliated for a major drone strike on its air bases.