UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Jul 19 — On the night of July 18, Russian troops dropped a FAB-1500 bomb on Kupiansk, Kharkiv region. The attack damaged a house and a two-story building of an enterprise, reported Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor.

The FAB-1500 is an unguided bomb with a high-explosive warhead, developed in the Soviet Union in 1954. In 2023, Russians equipped these unguided, highly explosive bombs of different weights with gliding modules that allow Russian fighters and bombers to drop the bomb 25-30 miles away from their target.

Towns and villages of the Kharkiv Oblast come under massive Russian artillery shelling and airstrikes 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 the afternoon of July 18, the Russian army shelled the Derhachi district with multiple rocket launchers, damaging five houses and a car. In the village of Ivashky, Zolochiv community, a Russian FPV drone attack destroyed a house.

Oleh Syniehubov also reported that at around 4 a.m., the Russian military attacked a residential area in the center of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, with two Iskander-M missiles, injuring nine people, including a 14-year-old boy.

According to the governor, all the injured are in the hospital with shrapnel wounds and are not in danger of death.

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