Medical personnel remove a body from the scene of an overnight shelling attack in Kharkiv. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY KOZLOV

Six people were killed and 10 were injured in overnight attacks on eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Saturday morning.

Terekhov added that Russian missiles had hit residential areas, including at least 9 high-rise apartment buildings.

“This attack on civilians in Kharkiv proves once again that Russia is a terrorist state,” Terekhov wrote.

Russia also attacked Ukraine’s Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Khmelnytskyi regions overnight, with no casualties reported.

The press service of the Ukrainian Air Force said Ukraine had shot down 28 Iranian-made Shahed drones out of 32 launched, and 3 missiles out of six launched by Russia.

Kharkiv, a city in eastern Ukraine just 35 kilometres from the Russian border, has been under near-constant shelling since the start of the Russian invasion.