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A Russian<\/a> drone strike on a farm in northeast Ukraine<\/a> overnight into Friday sparked a fire that killed some 13,000 pigs, emergency service officials said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s state emergency service said the Russian drone attack hit a “farming enterprise in the Novovodolazka community” in the Kharkiv region. A worker at the farm was injured.<\/p>\n

Photos released by the service showed pig carcasses piled up in cramped sheds that were partly burned down, some with their roofs shattered.<\/p>\n

\"Massive<\/p>\n

A farmer gathers surviving piglets at a farm hit by a Russian drone strike on Oct. 3, 2025, in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Viktoriia Yakymenko\/Suspilne Ukraine\/JSC “UA:PBC”\/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The pigs were held in eight stalls spanning just over 140,000 square feet, all of which burned down in the fire, the emergency service added.<\/p>\n

Animals have suffered along with people throughout the three-and-a-half-year war. Previous Russian strikes have hit stables and zoos.<\/p>\n

In September, seven horses were killed in the Kyiv region during a large-scale Russian attack that hit an equestrian club. Zoos across Ukraine have been damaged throughout the war, with one attack killing a ram in Odesa zoo in June.<\/p>\n

\"Massive<\/p>\n

A massive strike by Russian drones hit a farm in the Nova Vodolaha settlement hromada in the Kharkiv region.<\/p>\n

Viktoriia Yakymenko\/Suspilne Ukraine\/JSC “UA:PBC”\/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The strike appears to be part of a large attack by Russia against natural gas facilities run by Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz Group.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired a total of 381 drones and 25 missiles at gas extraction and processing facilities in the Kharkiv and Poltava regions, some of which sustained critical damage.<\/p>\n

“This is deliberate terror against civilian facilities that provide gas extraction and processing for the normal life of people,” Serhii Koretskyi, chief executive of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz, said in a statement. “It has no military purpose. This is yet another act of Russian malice aimed solely at disrupting the heating season and depriving Ukrainians of warmth in winter.”<\/p>\n

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said its forces launched a mass strike using drones and guided weapons against Ukraine’s military-industrial complex and the gas and energy infrastructure that supports it. “All designated targets were hit,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press<\/p>\n

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