Russia bombarded Ukraine’s second-largest city with massive strikes in the early hours of Saturday, its mayor said, killing at least three people, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine.

Photos showed burnt and partially destroyed houses and vehicles, and rescuers carrying the injured to safety and removing debris.

Russia unleashed a massive overnight assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in what local officials are calling the most powerful attack since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.