UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Sep 6 — In the morning, settlements in Borova, Solonytsivka, and Kupiansk communities in the Kharkiv region came under fire from the Russian army. The Russians injured a 46-year-old man, reported the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service (SES) in Kharkiv region and the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and air strikes often, even more so since Russia launched a new ground offensive north and northeast of the region in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi directions in May.

In the morning, Russian troops dropped glide bombs (KABs) on civilian houses in the village of Iziumske in the Borova community. The hits destroyed three households and damaged five other houses and four outbuildings. There were no casualties among residents.

“One fire and rescue unit, one pyrotechnic unit, and a medical unit of the Kharkiv Oblast State Emergency Service were working [at the hit site],” the SES reported.

In addition, Russian forces shelled the territory of a civilian enterprise in the village of Vilshany, Solonytsivka village council, Kharkiv district, where a fire broke out in an open area of 500 m2. The shelling injured a 46-year-old man.

Also, the village of Kivsharivka of the Kupiansk community came under fire at 9:45 a.m. The shelling hit a religious facility. There is no information about the victims.

At about 7:30 a.m., Russian troops launched a missile attack on Liubotyn in the Kharkiv region. The missile attack injured three women aged 65, 70, 42, and a teenage girl. 

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