00:00A Russian drone smashed into a home in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region overnight,
00:06killing four people, a father and his three small children.
00:10The children's mother, who is 35 weeks pregnant, was badly injured, Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday.
00:17According to the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office,
00:20the strike completely destroyed the house and set it on fire, with the family trapped under the rubble.
00:26Rescue workers pulled the mother alive from the rubble, prosecutors said.
00:31The latest Russian aerial attack comes after a so-called energy truce,
00:36which U.S. President Donald Trump said he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to observe expired last week.
00:43The truce was meant to allow Ukraine's energy sector a reprieve during what has been an extremely cold winter.
00:50Local authorities in Kharkiv have declared a state of emergency over the energy situation in the region.
00:56Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the latest attack,
01:00saying every such Russian strike undermines confidence in everything that has been done diplomatically to end the four-year-old
01:08war.
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