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- Russian attack on Kharkiv damages maternity hospital, sending patients fleeing</p>
<p>July 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM</p>
<p>KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.</p>
<p>Three women and three newborns suffered acute stress and received medical help, according to Kharkiv's regional prosecutors.</p>
<p>Oleksandra Lavrynenko was at the hospital after just giving birth. "We woke up and heard a very loud whistle. My husband and I got up and quickly went to our little one, and at that moment there was a hit and the windows shattered," she said.</p>
<p>They rushed to shelter one-day-old Maksym underground.</p>
<p>"It was very scary, because I was so full of adrenaline that I probably forgot that I had stitches. Now I am slowly recovering from the shock," Lavrynenko said.</p>
<p>"It is very difficult and scary to give birth at this time," she said, laying next to her son.</p>
<p>Shards of glass littered the medical facility's floors and beds and patients and staff prepared to evacuate.</p>
<p>Oleksandr Kondriatskyi, one of the doctors, said the attack damaged the side of the building where the delivery and surgery rooms were located.</p>
<p>"Everyone, both the staff and the women, suffered severe stress," he said, adding that some of the patients only gave birth a couple days ago and had had surgery.</p>
<p>Russia has increased the intensity of aerial attacks in recent weeks, and carried out more missile and drone strikes across Ukraine.</p>
<p>It has frequently targeted Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, located in the northeast of the country, since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022.</p>
<p>Nine people were injured in Kharkiv and an apartment building was also damaged in the attack. One person died and at least five more were injured as a result of various Russian attacks over the past day in the surrounding region, governor Oleh Syniehubov said.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Vitalii Hnidyi; Writing by Anastasiia Malenko; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)</p>
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