UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, May 6 — Russian airstrikes hit Kharkiv and 20 settlements in Kharkiv region, injuring 17 locals, reported Kharkiv oblast governor Oleh Syneihubov. 

Russians attacked the Kholodnohirskiy, Osnovianskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts of Kharkiv. Their airstrikes injured a 55-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man, damaging railways. 

The reported Russian attack on Mala Danylivka village injured 12 people, including a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. Among the injured were women 82, 63, 77, 52, and 70, and men 70, 66, 77, and 70. 

Russian troops also attacked Kupiansk, Izium, and Chuhuiv oblasts with a glide bomb, seven Geran-2 drones, a Lancet drone, two Molniya drones, eight FPV drones, and 28 drones of an unidentified type. 

In Mala Danylivka, a Russian attack damaged 115 households, four residential apartment buildings, 14 outhouses, eight garages, and five cars, Synuiehubov said. The attack also damaged buildings in Cherkaska Lozova and Ruska Lozova, the villages near Mala Danylivka. Local authorities closed the road leading from Kharkiv to Mala Danylivka in the aftermath of the attack, but it’s already reopened. 

Russian attacks on Bohodukhiv districts were also significant, Syniehubov said. They damaged power networks in Shuby village, a multi-apartment building in Ivashky village, a garage and outhouse in Riasne villages, three houses (villagesIvano-Shyichyne, Pysarivka, Bohodukiv), and a house and power networks (Bratenytsia). 

In Lisne village of Mala Danylivka community, Russian shelling injured 49- and 73-year-old women. In Staryi Saltiv village, a Russian FPV drone attack damaged a 51-year-old man, added the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office.     

Apart from that, healthcare workers provided aid to a 15-year-old boy who was injured during the attack on Merefa on May 4. In that city, a Russian missile strike killed seven people.

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