UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Mar. 13 — In the morning, Russian forces attacked Nova Oleksandrivka village in the Kupiansk district with an Iskander-M missile, hitting near the civilian bus on the route Velykyi Burluk-Kharkiv, reported the Kharkiv regional police.

The attack killed the driver and two passengers of the bus.

Medics hospitalized three women aged 44, 53, and 59 years old and a 70-year-old man with blast injuries, said Anna Hontar, a spokeswoman of the Kharkiv military administration, to the journalists.

The attack also damaged nearby houses, police said.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked 14 settlements in the Kharkiv region with a multiple rocket launcher, two glide bombs, and 36 drones of different types.

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