UKRAINE, ZOLOCHIV, May 5 — Russian troops dropped two aerial bombs on Zolochiv, with one destroying a house that belongs to the family of a soldier who got injured fighting in Russian Kursk Oblast, said Viktor Kovalenko, the head of Zolochiv military administration, to Suspilne Kharkiv, Ukrainian media. 

Kovalenko said the house was empty during the attack: the soldier’s family was in Kharkiv because he is hospitalized in the city, so his loved ones were near him. 

The Russian bomb attack did injure at least four people in Zolochiv: an 86-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman, and two children, aged 4 and 12. 

Kovalenko said Russians used bombs weighing 500 kilograms to attack Zolochiv — one hit the soldier’s house, another fell on the open field and didn’t explode. 

One of the houses destroyed in Russian aerial bomb attack on Zolochiv, May 5
One of the houses destroyed in Russian aerial bomb attack on Zolochiv, May 5 / Source: Viktor Kovalenko

Zolochiv, a village northwest of Kharkiv, is situated about 10 miles (16 km) south of the Russian border. Russian troops attack it frequently, most often with guided bombs.  

Just over five days of May, according to the official data, Russian air attacks killed three people and injured at least 72, including children, across Kharkiv region.

Over the last month, Russian attacks damaged over 500 buildings in Kharkiv alone.  

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