UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Sep 17 — The Russians hit Kupiansk with an airstrike, injuring a 63-year-old woman and damaging at least ten private households, reports the press service of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and air strikes 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.

The Russians also dropped an FAB-250 glide bomb (UMPB D-30) on the village of Novoosynove, Kupiansk district, damaging residential buildings.  

Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast, reported that since the beginning of the year, the Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region killed 321 people, including 16 children. 

Also, since the beginning of the year, Russian shelling of the Kharkiv region has injured 1,954 people, including 155 children.

UPD from September 18, 4:43 p.m. (Kyiv time): Russian shelling killed 321 and injured 1,954 not since September, but since the beginning of the 2024 year. A mistake in the last paragraph fixed

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  • On September 12, Russian troops attacked eight settlements in the Kharkiv region 11 times. Attacks on Borova killed four people, reported Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.