UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, June 24 — Russia has already dropped more than 2,400 glide bombs (KABs) on Ukraine since the beginning of June, hitting the Kharkiv region with about 700 of them, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening address on June 22.

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.

On June 22, Russia attacked Kharkiv with at least four glide bombs, reported Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov. One of the bombs hit a residential area in the center of the city, killing at least three and injuring 56 people, including three children. 

Oleh Syniehubov, Kharkiv Oblast Governor, reported that on June 24, in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv, the Russian military dropped a KAB on an educational institution, destroying a two-story building. The Russian bomb attack injured four people, including a 15-year-old child.

In the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv, the Russians dropped KABs on two private houses, killing one and injuring eight people, including one 16-year-old child.

General Arnoud Stallmann, a Dutch Air Force commander, said that F-16s are expected to protect Kharkiv and its region this summer against glide bombs. 

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