UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Aug 8 — On the morning of August 7, Russian troops attacked Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), damaging a car, reported Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and air strikes 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.

In addition, yesterday afternoon in Hlushkivka, Kupiansk district, the Russian shelling caused grass to catch fire in an area of about 30 m2. There was no information about casualties or injuries in the Kharkiv region over the past day.

Serhii Bolvinov, head of the investigation department of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, reported that the Russian army started launching massive drone attacks on civilians.

On the evening of August 6, a Russian drone hit a house in Kozacha Lopan, injuring a 62-year-old civilian man.

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