UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Dec 9 – Over the past day, the Russian army attacked several settlements in the Kharkiv region. There is damage and destruction of infrastructure, said Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian shelling and airstrikes, often during the full-scale invasion, as Moscow targets civilian and critical infrastructure in the region.

The shelling of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi destroyed a house and damaged a house in the Kutkivka village of the Dvorichna community.

Also, the Ukrainian air defense forces repelled a Russian drone attack over the village of Rizdviane.

On December 9, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that over the past week, the Russian army attacked the territory of Ukraine 920 times with various types of weapons. The Russians have used near 500 guided aerial bombs, over 400 attack drones, and almost 20 missiles of various types against Ukraine.

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