UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, June 25 — After 10 a.m., the Russian army carried out at least three airstrikes on civilian targets in Kharkiv, without causing any casualties, Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor, said on Ukrainian TV. In total, the Russians dropped 42 KABs on the Kharkiv region over the past day, he added.
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.
Russian bomb attacks on June 25 damaged about 40 private houses in Kharkiv. Their blast waves smashed more than 1,000 windows in apartment buildings, Syneihubov said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening address on June 22 that since the beginning of June, Russia has dropped more than 2,400 glide bombs on Ukraine, hitting the Kharkiv region with about 700 of them.
General Arnoud Stallmann, a Dutch Air Force commander, said that F-16s fighter jets are expected to protect Kharkiv and its region against glide bombs this summer.
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- At about 3:13 p.m., Russia attacked Kharkiv with at least four glide bombs, reported Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov. One of the bombs hit a residential area in the center of the city, killing at least three and injuring 56 people, including three children.
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