UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Mar. 2 — Russian shelled nine settlements of Kharkiv oblast, injuring six people, reported the governor of the region, Oleh Syniehubov. 

Syniehubov said that, after Russia hit three districts of Kharkiv with drones on Mar. 1, three people got acute stress reactions in Kharkiv. Strikes damaged a high-rise residential building, three dormitories, a children’s hospital, a park, a shop, and an administrative building in the city.

In Vilshany village of the Kharkiv district, two people, 75 and 71, got acute stress reactions as well — Russian attacks damaged four houses and a car.

Russian shelling injured a 74-year-old man in Husynka of the Kupiansk district and damaged a house there. In another village of the district, Hrushivka, the attacks damaged a hotel.

Attacks also damaged an educational facility, a cemetery, and power networks in the Zolochiv village of Bohodukiv district.

To attack the Kharkiv region, Russia used two glide bombs and 46 drones of different types, Syniehubov added. 

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