UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Apr. 13 — Russian forces attacked the Velykyi Burluk settlement in the Kupiansk district east of the Kharkiv oblast with a drone. The attack killed one and injured three people, reported the State Emergency Service.

Velykyi Burluk is a settlement located 68 kilometers (~42 miles) northeast of Kharkiv, in the Burluk river valley. Since the beginning of October, Ukrainian war monitoring group DeepState has recorded Russian advances east of the Velykyi Burluk near Ambarne and Odradne villages.

The attack killed a woman and injured another one. Also, a man and woman suffered an acute stress reaction, said the press service of the Kharkiv regional State Emergency Service to Suspilne Kharkiv, a local media. 

According to the emergency service, the attack damaged four houses, three outbuildings, and set a fire to a house and a car.

In the morning of Apr. 13, Russian forces attacked a civilian business in Derhachi in the Kharkiv district with drones, injuring at least five people.

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