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Russian forces continued limited offensive operations toward Borova on September 22 and 23 but did not advance.

Borova, Kharkiv
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Russian forces continued limited offensive operations toward Borova on September 22 and 23 but did not advance.

Russian forces attacked Kharkiv on Tuesday 22 September.

Drones attacked cars, killing one person.

Terekhov reported that the Russians had struck Kharkiv's Kyivskyi district three times during the evening.

He wrote that one person had been killed and several people were known to have been injured in the strikes.

Russian forces struck Izium in the Kharkiv region with aerial bombs, damaging apartment buildings and injuring eight people, including a child.

On the Kupiansk axis, the Defense Forces repelled one enemy offensive action toward the settlement of Borova.

Russia has been sending waves of jet-powered strike drones against Kyiv in recent weeks, with gas stations emerging as a recent target in the capital... after similar attacks had already become common in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

Geolocated footage published Sept. 22 showed Ukrainian forces recently advanced west of Kalynove, north of Kupyansk.

The enemy is making every effort to capture Kupiansk and Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi. Significant forces have been committed to this, and the enemy is constantly receiving reinforcements.

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