KHARKIV OBLAST, UKRAINE, May 10 — Over the past day, 21 settlements in the Kharkiv region came under Russian artillery and mortar fire. The Russians killed one person and injured four others, reported Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

According to him, the Russian shelling killed a 51-year-old man and injured a 49-year-old woman in Kupiansk. In Lyptsi, a 62-year-old woman was injured. In addition, an 11-year-old child and a 72-year-old woman suffered an acute stress reaction due to the Russian attack on Kharkiv.

Russians attack the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia, daily. Russian troops strike the towns and villages of the region with S-300 missiles, Iranian-made Shahed drones, glide bombs, and mortars.

In particular, on May 10, at around 3:30 a.m., Russian troops dropped KAB glide bombs on Derhachi, Kharkiv district, damaging about 25 buildings and structures, and 33 trade pavilions.

At 3:15 a.m. in the village of Lyptsi, Kharkiv district, the Russian shelling caused the roof of a private house and an outbuilding to catch fire. A 62-year-old woman was injured.

At 5:40 p.m., the Russian shelling damaged three houses in Kupiansk. At 2:36 p.m., the Russian army attacked Derhachi with drones, damaging the roof of a gas station, a gas pump, and a car. In Vovchansk at 10:40 a.m., a mortar attack damaged a private enterprise, a slate hangar, and a weighing station.

On May 9, at about 10:15 a.m., Russian troops attacked Kupiansk, Kharkiv region. The shelling injured two people. Both, a 51-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman, were hospitalized. Later, the man died from blast injuries. 

In total, more than 120 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv oblasts came under Russian artillery fire over the past day.

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