UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Apr. 21 — Over the past day, Russians launched attack drones at the Osnovianskyi, Kholodnohirskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts of Kharkiv, injuring nine people and damaging houses, reported the Kharkiv regional police.

Medics hospitalized a 48-year-old man, two women aged 50 and 43 years old, a 17-year-old girl, and a 19-year-old man, said the police.

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

Russians conducted a mass drone attack on Bohodukhiv, west of Kharkiv oblast, hitting a gas station and injuring three men aged 43, 45, and 64 years old. They also damaged a children’s orphanage, farm, and storage buildings, shops, cars, and the roofs and windows of houses.

In the Bohodukhiv district, Russians damaged service rooms and hangars of a farm, and houses. They also attacked houses, a brick factory, and power networks in Zolochiv settlement, an apartment building in Riasne village, and a civilian car in Odnorobivka village.

In the Chuhuiv district, Russian attacks damaged houses and a non-operational kindergarten building.

A Russian FPV drone hit an ambulance near Honarivka village of the Chuhuiv district. No one from the crew was injured.

Also, in the Kharkiv district, Russian attacks damaged houses.

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