UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Jul 9 — Over the past day, Russian troops hit Kharkiv and eight settlements in Kharkiv Oblast, killing one person and injuring four, reported governor Oleh Syniehubov. 

Kharkiv Oblast is located in northeastern Ukraine, with the country’s second-largest city as its center. Russia wants to occupy the region, attempting to advance from the north and east, and follows their attempts with frequent attacks from many kinds of weapons on civilians in villages and towns. 

Syniehubov reports that this time, Russia hit the region with eight missiles, 10 guided aerial bombs, four Shahed-type drones, 10 Geran-2 drones, and two first-person view (FPV) drones. 

Local authorities say Russia hit Kupiansk, an important logistics hub in the region Russia intends to reoccupy, killing a 68-year-old man and injuring two women, 65 and 66, and damaging a high-rise apartment building. 

In Monachivka of the Kindrashivka community, Russian shelling injured a 71-year-old man. In Hryhorivka village of Velykyi Burluk community, attacks injured a 52-year-old man and damaged a house. 

Syniehubov adds that Russian infrastructure damaged power infrastructure in Hrakove of Chuhuiv district, a building of a civilian business in Pechenihy, and a house in Kehychivka of the Berestynskyi district. 

Russian attacks on the Borova community of the Izium district destroyed a combine machine and started a fire that destroyed about 50 hectares of a wheat field. 

State Emergency Services put out five fires caused by Russian attacks on the region over the past day.

The overnight attack on Kharkiv hit the Slobidskyi district of the city. No other information has been reported by the authorities. 

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