KHARKIV OBLAST, Feb 5  — Russian troops hit Mala Vovcha, Ustynivka, Vilkhuvatka, Khatnie, Velykyi Burluk, Kamianka, Kolodiazne, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Kucherivka, Ivanivka, Kyslivka, Kotliarivka, Krokhmalne, Pishchane in the Kharkiv Oblast with airstrikes. 

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces informed about this in a morning report.

The Russian army did not conduct any assault operations in the Kupiansk direction on February 4.

In the Slobozhanskyi direction, in the border areas, the Russian military conducts intense sabotage activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to more dangerous directions and increases the density of minefields along the state border in the Belgorod Oblast.

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The Russian army fired mortars and artillery at more than 150 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.