UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, May 13 — Over the day, Russian forces launched six glide bombs and 43 kamikaze drones of different types on 15 settlements of Kharkiv oblast, said Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of  the region. 

On May 13, Russian forces attacked the village of Riasne in Zolochiv community, located north of Kharkiv oblast, with an FPV-drone, killing a 60-year-old man. The strike also damaged two houses and outbuildings, Viktor Kovalenko, the head of the village, said to Gwara Media. 

Yesterday, Russia launched an air-strike on the village of Shevchenkove in the Kupiansk district, east of Kharkiv oblast, injuring a 75-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man, damaging an apartment building, six houses, administrative building, and two vehicles.

Russian troops damaged a roof on the farm in the village of Vasylenkov of the Kupiansk district, injuring two women aged 39 and 42, and a 45-year-old man. Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported that the fire covered 50 square meters (8 square feet) of the roof’s structural elements after the Russian attack. 

Russian strikes also damaged power grids, houses, garage, outbuildings, power grids across the Kharkiv region. 

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