Russia just bombed Kharkiv for the second night running

This is the second night running Kharkiv has been hit.

So let's back up. A missile hit the nearby town of Pisochyn just over a day ago. Three people died — a 16-year-old boy, a 19-year-old woman, a 51-year-old woman. Injury counts for that one swing wildly, anywhere from 20 to 28 people, depending who you ask.

Earlier the same day, a strike on Kharkiv's Nemyshlyanskyi district killed one person and hurt eight more.

Now it's happened again.

Ihor Terekhov described tonight's damage like this. He says quote "the destruction is very serious – an entire entrance section has collapsed".

That's the mayor of a city of over a million people, telling you a building no longer has a front.

And here's the thing. Kharkiv sits just 30 kilometres from the Russian border. That's Ukraine's second-biggest city. So close that there's barely any warning before a missile lands.

Russia hasn't said a word about tonight. Not what it was aiming at. Not whether it's even saying this one was theirs.

But look at the pattern, even where the numbers don't line up. Strikes on the city. Then a strike on a nearby town. Then two more districts hit the next evening. One local broadcaster, Suspilne, counted at least 14 impacts across three Kharkiv districts in a single day this week.

We still don't know if 8 or 11 people were hurt tonight. We don't know if that building was four storeys or five.

What we do know is this. For the second night running, people in Kharkiv are being pulled out of wrecked buildings. And the rescuer who went in to help one of them ended up in hospital too.