UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, June 21 — The Russian shelling injured a man in the village of Ruski Tyshky, Kharkiv district, reported Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and airstrikes often, even more so since Russia launched a new ground offensive north and northeast of the region in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi directions in May.

According to Syniehubov, the Russian military hit a household with a summer kitchen and an outbuilding, damaging a house. Russian attacks also damaged a house in Kupiansk over the past day.

On the night of June 21, from 2:55 a.m. to 3:12 a.m., the Russian military hit Borova village in the Izium district with airstrikes, damaging seven houses, a car, and a store extension. 

On May 19, Oleh Syniehubov said that the authorities plan to announce mandatory evacuation of families with children in the Borova community due to Russian shelling.

Currently, 580 children live in the Borova community. The authorities plan to announce evacuation from the settlements of Zahryzove, Bohuslavka, Shyikivka, Maliivka, and Nova Kruhliakivka.

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