Russian attacks on Kharkiv region kill three and injure six over the past day
Russian attacks killed at least three people, and six others were injured in the Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours, according to Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
A 58-year-old woman was killed, and a 66-year-old man was hospitalized with injuries after Russian forces shelled the village of Podoly in the Kupiansk district.
A house was also destroyed, and a fire broke out in an outbuilding, he added.
At 11:30 a.m., Russians shelled the village of Putnykove in the Kupiansk district. A 65-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were wounded in the shelling and refused to be hospitalized.
Russian attack destroyed a private house as a fire broke out in an outbuilding.
On the evening of August 5, at around 8:20 p.m., Russian troops struck a non-residential building in the village of Kruglyakivka, Kupiansk district, with a guided aerial bomb.
A large-scale fire broke out at the site of the attack. According to preliminary reports, two men were killed, and four others were injured. Details of the consequences of the attack are being investigated.
After the de-occupation of the Kharkiv region, Russians regularly shell the Kupiansk district and the city of Vovchansk.
On July 22, a woman was killed in the shelling of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, a man was killed, and another was injured in the village of Dvorichna in the Kupiansk district.
Against this backdrop, Ukraine announced a forced evacuation of children in some settlements of the frontline community.
On August 6, Russian forces shelled Kharkiv once again with S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems.
Populated areas in the districts of Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Izium, and Kupiansk have been continuously shelled in the past 24 hours, causing property damage.
