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Russian forces conducted Geran drone strikes against a Ukrainian warehouse with drones and electronic components in Kharkiv Oblast on August 9.

Savyntsi, Kharkiv Oblast
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Institute for the Study of War Ukrainska Pravda Ukrinform Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post UNIAN

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Geran drone (weapon_system) Kharkiv Oblast (location) Savyntsi (location) Kharkiv (location) Saltivskyi district (location) Russia (organization) Russian Federation (organization) Russian Armed Forces (military_unit) Southern Slobozhanshchyna axis (location) Starytsia (location) Vovchansk (location) Artilne (location) Izbytske (location) Volokhivka (location) Kupyne (location) Khatnie (location) Ukrainian Armed Forces (military_unit) Kupiansk axis (location) Petropavlivka (location) Novoplatonivka (location) Russian forces (military_unit) Ihor Terekhov (person) Oleh Syniehubov (person) Saltivka (location) drone (weapon_system) Saltivka district (location)

Source Reports

Institute for the Study of War →

The Russian MoD claimed on August 9 that Russian forces conducted Geran drone strikes against a Ukrainian warehouse with drones and electronic components in Kharkiv Oblast.

Ukrainska Pravda →

An enemy strike has been recorded in the Saltivskyi district. Early reports indicate that the enemy hit a high-rise residential building.

Ukrainska Pravda →

Terekhov later confirmed that a residential building had been hit, with the sixth to ninth floors destroyed.

Ukrinform →

Russian forces struck Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district, hitting an apartment building

Kyiv Independent →

Russia killed three and injured 37 in Kharkiv Oblast, destroying floors 7-10 of a residential building in Saltivskyi.

Kyiv Post →

Russian forces targeted the Saltivka district in Kharkiv on Sunday morning, Aug. 9.

UNIAN →

The Russian army attacked the Saltivka district of Kharkiv; a drone hit a 10-story residential building.

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