UKRAINE, KARKIV OBLAST, Jul. 15 — Russian forces launched a glide bomb and kamikaze drones, including first-person view (FPV), at Kharkiv, injuring nine people, reported city’s local authorities. 

According to Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor, at around 1:30 p.m., a Russian kamikaze drone attacked an apartment building in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv. 

About 30 minutes later, Russian forces launched another drone at the same district, damaging another apartment building and causing a fire at the impact site. Later, the Kharkiv City Council reported that, here, Russia used an FPV drone. No injuries were reported. 

After the drone attack, at 2:08 p.m., Russian forces launched a glide bomb at Kharkiv, again at the Kyivskyi district, injuring nine people, said Ihor Terekhov. 

Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, said that a Russian glide bomb hit an industrial and administrative building, also damaging a hangar and seven vehicles.  

Syniehubov said that a 49-year-old man was hospitalized with severe injuries, while six others, three women aged 51, 31, and 60 and three men aged 50, 44, 57, were hospitalized with moderate injuries. 

Later, the governor said medics had reported that three of the hospitalized patients had severe injuries. He did not disclose their ages.

Syniehubov also said that medics provided aid to a 51-year-old man who was injured by the shattered glass and a 16-year-old boy with minor injuries. 

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