New Delhi, June 9 -- The fires started just after midnight. By the time emergency crews reached the streets of Chuhuiv, a city of roughly 30,000 in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, three people were dead - two elderly men and an elderly woman, according to regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov, who disclosed the victims' ages in a series of Telegram posts as the night wore on. A pregnant woman also died, the city's mayor said in a separate update, though that figure had not been confirmed in the regional count by early Tuesday morning. The number of injured climbed to at least six in Chuhuiv alone.

one of the larger single-night drone barrages recorded against the region this year. Ukrainian air defenses claimed to ...