UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Sep 17 — The Russian army attacked 11 settlements in the Kharkiv region 13 times, injuring two elderly women and one elderly man, reported Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.
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.
The Russian artillery shelling of Podoly village injured a 63-year-old man, Oleh Syniehubov said.
The Russians also attacked the town of Kupiansk and the village of Bohuslavka twice. In Kupiansk, the Russians injured two women aged 65 and 63, while in Bohuslavka, a house was damaged, and a 20-hectare forest was burning.
The shelling of the villages of Hrushivka, Nova Kozacha, Verkhnii Saltiv, Hubarivka, Losivka, and the town of Bohodukhiv caused the grass to burn over a total area of 9.6 hectares.
In Losivka, the Russian shelling caused the structures of a destroyed house to burn, and in Bohodukhiv, an enterprise, four houses, an apartment building, and a warehouse were damaged.
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- At night, the Russian army launched a combined attack on Kharkiv with drones and North Korean missiles, injuring a 66-year-old woman, reported the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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