UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Oct. 14 — Russia launched airstrikes at Kharkiv and eight settlements in the region, injuring or triggering acute stress response in at least 62 people over the past day, reports Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast, in his morning briefing. 

Russian attacks on Kharkiv, during the day and in the evening, injured men, aged 79 and 68, and women, aged 75, 73, 44, 69, and 74. 

A Russian glide bomb strike near one of the city’s hospitals in Saltivskyi district provoked an acute stress reaction in 50 patients who were getting treatment there. Their first-person view (FPV) drone (according to the Prosecutor’s office preliminary investigation) hit a central part of Kharkiv, damaging a dorm for internally displaced people. 

In Kupiansk, Russian shelling injured a 78-year-old, a 58-year-old, and a 71-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man. 

Russian attacks damaged a dorm, a civilian business, an educational facility, a hospital, an outbuilding, two non-residential buildings, power lines, and 24 cars in Kharkiv. 

They also damaged a car in Blahodativka village, a house in Kupiansk, two houses and two outbuildings in Velykyi Burluk, and a house in Kozacha Lopan. 

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