Residential buildings were hit early on Tuesday in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, leaving three people killed and another 42 injured.
The sky over Kharkiv turned burnt orange with fire after the strikes, which used multiple kinds of Russian missiles.
Kharkiv resident Natalia told the BBC she doesn’t remember things being this “loud” since the start of the war: "My house shook.
Hours after the attacks, emergency services told the BBC they were still on the scene and looking for explosives as it was suspected there may be part of a missile that did not detonate.
At a hospital the BBC visited, staff kept working through the air raid, even though they heard the explosions and felt the doors rattle.
Ukrainian forces have in the past week targeted Russian energy infrastructure, including unprecedented attacks on an oil terminal in its second city St Petersburg.
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