Firefighters battled a major blaze in Kharkiv, started by a Russian rocket attack on the Ukrainian city late on Saturday night.

Video shot in the early hours of Sunday 4 September, local time, showed firefighters battling to control the fire, which Ukrainian reports said began when Russian rockets hit civilian infrastructure.

One target struck was a restaurant complex in the Kyiv district of the city, whose structures were made of wood, causing a major fire across much of the complex.

Video showed firefighters battling the blaze, which affected two main buildings and a summer pavilion, across a claimed total area of ​​2,200 square meters (23,680 square feet).

Eight fire tankers, a first-aid fire-rescue vehicle and about 50 State Emergency Service personnel were involved in extinguishing the fire and preventing it spreading to nearby buildings and forest.

At 2:47am local time they managed to localise the fire, while still fighting to fully extinguish the blaze.

At night, Kharkiv suffered another rocket attack on civilian infrastructure. One of the enemy rockets hit a restaurant complex in the Kyiv district of the city. All its buildings were built of wood, so immediately after the explosion, a fire broke out, which covered almost the entire territory of the complex. 2 main buildings and a summer pavilion on a total area of ​​2,200 square meters were burned. 8 fire tankers, a first-aid fire-rescue vehicle and about 50 personnel of the State Emergency Service were involved in extinguishing the fire. The main task of the rescuers was to prevent the further spread of the fire to neighboring buildings and the forest area. At 02:47 they managed to localize the fire. Currently, work on its final liquidation is ongoing.
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