Russia’s drone strike on Kharkiv prompted a tit for tat response from Ukraine, highlighting a pattern in which both sides favor low-risk drone attacks over infantry assaults.

(Reuters) -Overnight missile and bomb strikes by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv left three people dead and 22 hurt, while a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region wounded two people, officials from both countries said separately on Saturday.

Air assaults on Saturday killed at least four people. Kharkiv’s mayor described an overnight strike as “the most powerful attack” since the beginning of the war.

One of the hardest-hit areas was the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, where 17 attack drones struck two residential districts, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Emergency crews, municipal workers and volunteers worked through the night to extinguish fires, rescue residents from burning homes, and restore gas, electricity and water services.

Russia attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv at night with drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing at least three people and injuring 22, including a one-and-a-half-month-old baby, the city mayor,

Ukraine said on Wednesday that at least three people were killed and over 60 others injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on the city of Kharkiv.

Moscow’s drone strikes have grown exponentially thanks in part to a deal with Iran to produce its Shahed drones on Russian soil.

Russian troops have intensified their offensive activity in 7 frontline areas, which indicates a summer intensification of hostilities, says Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops.

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