UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Mar 20 — At 3:45 a.m., the Russian army shelled Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv district with guided aerial bombs, injuring a 56-year-old civilian man. Now, he is in the hospital, announced the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov.

According to him, the Russian attack damaged a power line and left part of the village without electricity. On March 19, at 8:30 a.m., Russians shelled Kozacha Lopan with a guided aerial bomb, damaging two private houses and households.

Also, on March 19, the Russian troops shelled the village of Mokra Rokytna in the Kharkiv district, damaging an enterprise.

In total, about 20 settlements in the Kharkiv Oblast came under artillery and mortar fire from the Russian army, including Hatyshche, Vovchansk, Bochkove, Budarky, Ambarne, Dvorichna, and Synkivka.

In addition, on March 19, the Russian military hit the settlements of Kozacha Lopan, Mokra Rokytna, Vesele, and Izbytske in the Kharkiv Oblast with airstrikes.

In total, the Russian army fired mortars and artillery at more than 150 settlements in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.

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