UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Oct 9 — Since September 7, the Russian attacks in the Kharkiv region have injured 49 people, including three children, and killed six others, Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the Kharkiv regional police, told on Ukrainian TV.

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 three days, Russian attacks destroyed or damaged 100 facilities, most of which were multi-story buildings or private houses, located mainly on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

Tymoshko said that the most extensive evacuation activities are currently underway in the Kupiansk district. He also noted that the evacuation of Lyptsi and Vovchansk communities in the Kharkiv district is almost complete.

“Now, there are only a few cases [in Lyptsi and Vovchansk communities] when people ask to leave. In the Kupiansk district, evacuations take place every day,” Tymoshko said.

Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast, said that at about 5:00 p.m. on October 8, Russians dropped an FAB-250 bomb near a residential high-rise building in Kharkiv, killing a 70-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman and injuring five people. The Russian bomb attack damaged 15 apartment buildings in the Saltivskyi district. 

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