UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Oct. 17 — Over the past day, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and seven settlements in the Kharkiv, Bohodukhiv, Chuhuiv, and Kupiansk districts of the region, injuring three people, reported the governor Oleh Syniehubov and the Kharkiv regional police.

Syniehubov said that Russians launched two missiles, two glide bombs, and eight attack drones of different types at Kharkiv oblast.

Russian attacks injured a 24-year-old man in Bilyi Kolodiaz, a 77-year-old man, and a 50-year-old woman in Kupiansk.

Russians destroyed or damaged four cars in the Chuhuiv district, a car in Kupiansk.

In the Bohodukhiv district, Russians attacked a car with an FPV drone in Buhaivka village and launched glide bombs in Skovorodynivka, damaging a farm storage building.

The governor also reported that on Oct. 15, a Russian killed a 58-year-old woman in Novoosynove and injured a 75-year-old woman in Kupiansk.

On Oct. 15, Russia conducted a mass attack on critical infrastructure in the Bohodukhiv, Izium, and Lozova districts of Kharkiv oblast, leaving people without gas and power supply in the latter.

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