Two civilians in a car were killed by a guided aerial bomb launched by Russian forces in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, Governor Oleg Synegubov said.
It concerns a 38-year-old woman and her father, said the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office. “At 10 a.m., the Russians hit a car and a house in Zolochiv,” a village located about fifteen kilometers from the Russian border, using “guided aerial bombs,” said Oleg Synegoubov.
A region under almost constant fire
Six other people were injured, including an 11-year-old child, he said on Telegram, indicating that two of them had been hospitalized. Later in the day, a 67-year-old woman died of her injuries following Russian shelling on the village of Lelyukivka, in the same region, the governor said.
The Kharkiv region, bordering Russia and a large part of which was occupied by Moscow’s army at the start of its invasion, before a victorious counter-offensive by kyiv in the fall of 2022, remains under almost constant fire. .
In recent months, Russia has been using powerful new weapons
In recent months, Russia has used new and powerful guided aerial bombs with devastating consequences. As elsewhere on the front, since the failure of the major Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer of 2023, it is Russian forces who are taking the initiative in the Kharkiv region.
A separate Russian strike left two dead and six injured in Guirnyk, a small town located about fifteen kilometers from the front line in the Donetsk region (east), its governor Vadim Filachkine said on Telegram. The official claimed Russian troops attacked the town using “Hurricane” rocket launchers, sharing photos of a burned house.