UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Mar. 18 — Russian forces attacked the Zolochiv settlement in north Kharkiv oblast with a drone, destroying two houses and damaging two others. The attack injured three women aged 39, 45, and 56 years old and two men aged 63 and 56 years old, reported the Kharkiv regional police.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and nine settlements in the region with nine glide bombs, five Geran-2 drones, two FPV drones, and 10 drones of unidentified types, said the governor of the region Oleh Syniehubov.

A Russian glide bomb hit a Zarichne village in the Chuhuiv district, injuring two women aged 55 and 79 years old and damaging houses.

A Russian attack on the Slatyne settlement in the Kharkiv district injured a 41-year-old man.

Russians damaged a storage building in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv.

Their attacks also damaged a storage in Volokhiv Yar village in the Izium district, burning down the sunflower seeds kept there and hit a railway infrastructure with a drone in Zmiiv, Chuhuiv district.

On Mar. 18, Russia attacked Kharkiv with a drone strike, killing one person and injuring two.

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