Five soldiers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces' 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade were shot dead by a man in civilian clothes armed with an automatic weapon in the village of Kutuzivka, Kharkiv region.

Five soldiers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade were shot dead on October 13 in the village of Kutuzivka in the Kharkiv region.

According to Ukraine’s Military Law Enforcement Service, 'a man in civilian clothes armed with an automatic weapon' opened fire.

Kharkiv and 16 other settlements in the Kharkiv region came under Russian attack over the past day, leaving four people dead and 51 injured, including four children.

In Kharkiv Oblast over the past day, Russia attacked the city of Kharkiv and settlements in the surrounding region, killing four people and injuring 36, including four children, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky later raised the number of injured in a missile strike on Kharkiv, meaning that 42 people were injured in the Oblast in total.

In Kharkiv, a Russian strike destroyed a residential building, killing four people, while 41 people were wounded in the city.

Leonid Ryzhikov killed five Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian on October 13.

The attack was carried out by a Russian soldier from the 1009th Motorised Rifle Regiment.