UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Apr. 16 — In the morning, Russian drones attacked a civilian business in Merefa, a city 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) east of Kharkiv, killing a woman and injuring six people, said Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the region.

According to the governor, the attack critically injured a 40-year-old woman, three women aged 30, 42, and 24 years old got moderate injuries, and two men aged 26 and 29 suffered an acute stress reaction.

On Apr. 15, Russian forces attacked the same civilian business in Merefa.

Petro Tokar, the head of regional police, said to local media Suspilne Kharkiv that the workers gathered to clean up the damage from the previous attack, when a new one happened.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and 14 settlements in the region with two missiles, one glide bomb, and 60 drones of different types, said Syniehubov.

In Kharkiv, Russian attacks hit near an apartment building in the Industrialnyi district, damaging cars, and injured a 66-year-old man and a 77-year-old woman in the Nemyshlianskyi district.

Another drone hit the territory of a gardening cooperative, damaging a house, an outbuilding, and an apartment building in the Saltivskyi district of Kharkiv, reported the Kharkiv regional police.

In the Bohodukhiv district, Russian attacks damaged a house and power networks in the Klynova-Novoselivka village, a lyceum building in the Riasne village, houses in the Zolochiv settlement, and a school building in the Pysarivka village.

Russians launched a glide bomb at Oskil village in the Izium district and a drone at Izium itself, damaging houses.

They also damaged houses in the Kharkiv district and hit a police car in the Chuhuiv district.

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