UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Aug. 27 — In the night, a Russian Molniya drone hit an apartment building in Kharkiv’s Industrialnyi district in the southern part of the city, injuring a 23-year-old man, reported Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office. 

Medics diagnosed the man with an acute stress reaction. The Russian attack damaged the building facade, and a blast wave blew out windows from its apartments. 

Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, said that yesterday Russian troops attacked Kharkiv, damaging a gas station, a drugstore, vehicles, and an apartment building. A 30-year-old man got an acute stress reaction following the attack.  

Syniehubov also added that over the past day, Russian forces carried out airstrikes on 19 settlements in the Kharkiv oblast, injuring 6 people. 

In the Kupiansk district, Russian troops injured a 57-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman in the village of Zelenyi Hai and a 68-year-old woman in the village of Velykyi Burluk. 

In the city of Derhachi, located north of Kharkiv, an 87-year-old man and an 89-year-old woman got an acute stress reaction after the Russian attack, while in the city of Lozova, in southern Kharkiv oblast, a 70-year-old woman also got an acute stress reaction. 

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