UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, June 14 — Yesterday evening, on June 13, the Russians attacked a bus with 15 civilians in Kupiansk with an FPV drone. In addition, the Russian strike damaged a police car, a civilian car, a cafe, and residential buildings and injured one person, reported Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and airstrikes often, even more so since Russia launched a new ground offensive north and northeast of the region in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi directions in May.

The governor said that in the Kupiansk district, the villages of Hlushkivka and Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi came under Russian fire. The shelling caused houses and a car to catch fire.

Three communities in the Chuhuiv district also came under Russian fire over the past day. In Staryi Saltiv, the Russian shelling damaged the roofs and windows of a dozen houses, Syniehubov reported.

Also, the Russian shelling caused a boathouse and a boat to catch fire in the village of Khotimlia. In Buhaivka, a Russian airstrike damaged a private house, injuring a man. He is in the hospital. 

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  • At night, Russian troops shelled a fire station in the village of Lyptsi, Kharkiv region. A fire broke out in the aftermath of the Russian attack, reported the State Emergency Service (SES) in the Kharkiv region.