A Ukrainian drone equipped with a shotgun shot down three Russian Mavic drones and fired at a Russian soldier near Synkivka and Petropavlivka in the Kupiansk sector.
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A Ukrainian drone equipped with a shotgun shot down three Russian Mavic drones and targeted a Russian soldier.
Russians constantly shell both the center of Kupiansk and central parts of settlements in the Kupiansk hromada, directly targeting the city of Kupiansk. There are no military objects there - they were not there before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian forces established an unspecified crossing over the Oskil River between Kruhlyakivka and Senkove (both northeast of Borova).
Russian forces have been attempting to force the Oskil River for months in an attempt to outflank Ukrainian defenders
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