UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, May 19 — In the morning, a Russian drone hit Pokotylivka settlement 8 kilometers (~5 miles) south of Kharkiv, killing a woman and injuring three people, including a 6-year-old girl, reported the Kharkiv regional police.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and 13 settlements in the region, reported Oleh Syniehubov, governor of the Kharkiv oblast.

In the Kupiansk district, a Russian drone hit a yard of a house, killing a man and injuring a woman in the Shevchenkove settlement. Another drone hit an apartment building in the settlement.

In Kharkiv, Russians attacked the Novobavarskyi and the Saltuvskyi districts, causing a fire in a house and injuring two men and two women.

In the Bohodukhiv district, Russians attacked Zolochiv settlement, Maiak, Klynova-Novoselivka, Petrivka, Pysarivka, Makarove, Lytvynivka, Ohiltsi, Klenove, Zariabynka, and Dehtiari villages. Russian attacks damaged houses, a farm, a medical institution, dormitories, power networks, outbuildings, and a tractor. In Bohodukhiv itself, a Russian attack injured three men and a woman.

Russians also attacked Studenok village, Borova settlement, and Balakliia in the Izium district, damaging houses.

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