UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Apr. 17 — Over Apr. 16, Russian airstrikes killed a 41-year-old woman in Merefa in Kharkiv district and injured 9 people across the region, reported the governor Oleh Syniehubov. 

Russia attacks Kharkiv oblast frequently because of its proximity to the border and the frontline. Just over the last week, according to the city council, Moscow shelled Kharkiv, the regional center and Ukraine’s second-largest city, nine times. 

Syniehubov informed that, on Apr. 16, the Russian drone attack on Merefa also injured women, 41, 40, 29, and 23, and men, 26 and 29. Another airstrike on Liubotyn, another city in Kharkiv district, injured three men aged  51, 46, and 66 років. 

Russians also attacked Saltivskyi, Kyivskyi, and Osnovianskyi districts of Kharkiv itself. Gwara’s journalists have been to one of the impact sites in the aftermath of the attack — check out the photo report here. 

Overall, during the day, Russian troops hit the Kharkiv and Kharkiv region with artillery and 28 drones of different types, Syniehubov added. 

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