UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Mar 27 — Over the past day, the Ukrainian troops managed to repel one Russian offensive in the Kupiansk direction near Ivanivka, Kharkiv Oblast.

The Russian army also hit Novoiehorivka, Ivanivka, and Kyslivka in the Kharkiv Oblast with airstrikes.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed about this in a morning briefing.

In the Slobozhanskyi direction, in the border areas, the Russian military conducts intense sabotage activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to more dangerous directions and increases the density of minefields along the state border in the Belgorod Oblast.

The Russian army fired mortars and artillery at more than 100 settlements in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine allocated $128 million to purchase drones for the Defence Forces. Agreements worth about $769 million have already been signed with drone manufacturers, and contracts worth $359 million are being prepared.

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  •  Russian troops fired at the Derhachi community, which borders Russia, in the Kharkiv Oblast, at approximately 4:11 p.m. The Russian aerial bomb destroyed at least two houses and damaged about a dozen private houses. Four women aged 56, 58, 66, and 68 experienced an acute stress reaction but refused hospitalization.