UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, July 3 — The Russian army shelled the village council of Borova in the Izium region, killing one person and injuring two others, reported Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor.

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. 

The Russians shelled Borova at around 4:50 a.m., killing a man. The attack injured a 50-year-old woman, who was hospitalized, and another 75-year-old resident suffered an acute stress reaction.

The Russian strike damaged the residential houses and civilian infrastructure. Four fires broke out at different addresses, covering about 140 m2, the State Emergency Service (SES) added.

Borova is a settlement about 17 miles southeast of Kharkiv. Russians occupied Borova in March 2022, and the Ukrainian army liberated it during the Kharkiv counteroffensive.   

Ukrainian open-source intelligence monitoring site DeepState, which tracks changes on the frontline, wrote on June 18 that on the section between Raihorodka and Novovodiane in the occupied Luhansk Oblast, Russia gathered up to 10,000 personnel and nearly 450 units of military equipment, including 200 artillery systems to advance on Borova in Kharkiv Oblast.

According to DeepState, Russia’s first goal is to reach the Nadia-Novoyehorivka line and then move to the Pershotravneve-Cherneshchina line before moving towards Borova in the Izium district. 

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