Russian forces launched a Shahed drone attack on Kharkiv at 00:50, damaging a private house and injuring three civilians.
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Russians attacked Kharkiv with drones at 00:50, damaging a private house. A man, 62, was injured, sustaining shrapnel injuries. Two more people, a 64-year-old woman and an 87-year-old man, were treated on the spot.
In the past day, enemy air strikes targeted Rodionivka in the Sumy region, Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv, Lyptsi, Kutuzivka, Ohirtseve, Kupiansk, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Ivanivka and Borova in the Kharkiv region
Ukraine has shot down 17 Russian "Shahed" explosive drones in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Poltava oblasts overnight
Five high-rise buildings, about ten garages and seven civilian vehicles, were reported damaged
Russians struck the residential sector of Kharkiv city centre, causing fires in garages and cars on an area of about 40 square metres and damaging buildings.
There are casualties among the civilian population resulting from the strikes.
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