UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Jun. 4 — Russian troops hit Kharkiv and 17 settlements in the region with airstrikes, killing three people and injuring 21, including two children, over the past day, reported Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov. 

Russia launched missile and kamikaze drone strikes on Kholodnohirskyi, Osnovianskyi, and Slobidskyi districts of Kharkiv. The attack killed a 52-year-old woman and injured men aged 66, 53, 18, 68, and 49, and women aged 58, 75, and 48. 

Russia launches airstrikes at Kharkiv oblast often: it’s adjacent to the Russian border, and Russian troops are trying to occupy more land in the region, conducting assaults from the north, east, and southeast. 

Russian airstrikes damaged railway infrastructure, a shop, four cars, six houses, a garage, and power networks. 

Another airstrike targeted the farm in Rokytne village in Nova Vodolaha community, killing men aged 29 and 65, and injuring men aged 68, 43, 21, 40, women aged 50, 65, 49, and 62 years, and a 17-year-old boy. 

Also, a 49-year-old woman got injured in a Russian airstrike in the Vinnytski village of Bohodukhiv district. 

Russia also hit Chuhuiv with Tornado-S multiple rocket launchers, injuring a 43-year-old man, a 70-year-old man, and a 14-year-old man. 

Russian forces damaged civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Lozova, Izium, Kupiansk, and Bohodukhiv districts of the Kharkiv region. To conduct all these attacks, Syniehubov said, Russian troops used three missiles, a glide bomb, 17 Geran-2 drones, five Molniya drones, five first-person view (FPV) drones, and 71 drones that are unidentified for now. 

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