UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Sep. 12 — Over the past day, Russian forces launched four aerial guided bombs and 15 attack drones of different types at 18 settlements in Kharkiv Oblast, reported Oleh Syniehubov, the region’s governor.
Russian attacks injured a 59-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman, who were the emergency medical workers, and a 59-year-old man in Kivsharivka, a village in the Kupiansk district.
In Grushivka, Russian injured a 83 and 55-years-old women and a 50-year-old man.
They also injured a 59-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman in Pogonivka, a 75-year-old woman in Borova, and a 61-year-old man in Fedorivka.
Russians destroyed or damaged the lyceum and preschool education institution, 10 houses, eight farm buildings, two garages, an ambulance, and a civilian car in the Kupiansk district.
In the Izumi district, they damaged seven houses, a residential building, and two cars and caused a forest fire covering 30,000 square meters.
There have been reports of widespread use of Russian FPV attack drones on the M-03 highway between Izium and Sloviansk. Due to the increased risk, the Infrastructure Development Service in the Kharkiv region warned drivers to choose alternative routes and avoid this road.
A soldier working in the Kharkiv region anonymously told Gwara Media that anti-drone meshes should have appeared two years ago. “We have a standard tendency: we start to act only when shit hits the fan,” he says.
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