UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Sep 2 — At night, the Russian army launched a combined attack on Kharkiv with drones and North Korean missiles, injuring a 66-year-old woman, reported the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office. 

Russian army attacks Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, often because it’s close to the border and the frontline. Their attacks intensified significantly since Moscow launched a new ground offensive north of the Kharkiv region in May. 

For the first time, Russian troops attacked the city at around 1:30 a.m. using drones. They damaged an educational institution in the Slobidskyi district. Then, another attack damaged residential buildings and outbuildings in the Kyivskyi district, injuring a 66-year-old woman.

At 5:30 a.m., the Russians launched a missile attack on Kharkiv, targeting a garden association in the Industrialnyi district. 

The prosecutor’s office said that the results of the examination of the recovered wreckage allowed them to draw a preliminary conclusion that the Russians used a KN-23 (or KN-24) missile, also commonly known as Hwasong-11, for the attack. North Korea produces such weapons.

On the evening of August 12, Russians hit the Bohodukhiv district in the Kharkiv region at least five times, also using a KN-23 (or KN-24) missile. The attacks injured seven people, including two boys aged four months and five years and two girls aged two and ten.  

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