The drones hit the medical facility in the city of Kharkiv, sending patients scrambling to protect their newborn babies.

Ukrainian drone and shelling attacks killed three people in Russia on Friday, while Russian bombardments on eastern Ukraine forced the evacuation of a maternity centre in Kharkiv and wounded nine.

Russia launched its largest drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine overnight into Wednesday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

A 34-year-old woman was killed and 82 people suffered injuries in Russia's morning drone attack on Kharkiv on 7 July. Source: report from Khrakiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office Quote: "On 7 July from 05:20 to 05:40 and between 10:20 and 10:30,

A Russian drone barrage targeted the center of Kharkiv on Friday, injuring nine people and damaging a maternity hospital in Ukraine’s second-largest city, officials said.