General Staff: Russian Military Hit Three Settlements in Kharkiv Oblast With Airstrikes

KHARKIV OBLAST, Feb 9 — Russian troops hit Starytsia, Ivanivka, and Kyslivka in the Kharkiv Oblast with airstrikes. 

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces informed about this in a morning report.

In the Kupiansk direction, the Russian army attacked five times near the villages of Synkivka and Ivanivka.

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.

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The Russian army fired mortars and artillery at more than 140 settlements in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.