Ukraine war briefing: Nine injured in Russia’s offensive on Kharkiv
- 24 May, 10:04
Nine civilians were killed and five others injured as Russia launched about ten strikes on Zolochiv settlement in Ukraine’s northern Kharkiv region on May 23.
Kharkiv region governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram messaging app that Russia was exclusively targeting civilian areas in its attack.
Moreover, Russian troops attacked 17 settlements in Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Wednesday, May 22, wounding two people. Meanwhile, Dmytro Lykhovii, spokesperson for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said 139 combat engagements occurred along the front lines in Ukraine on May 22. Lykhovii reported that Russia hit Ukrainian army positions and Ukrainian cities and villages with six missile strikes using seven missiles, 49 airstrikes using 70 guided aerial bombs, and more than 370 kamikaze drone strikes using Shaheds, Lancets, and FPVs.
He stated that in the past day, Russia carried out airstrikes near the settlements of Lyptsi, Vovchansk and Starytsia in the Kharkiv region, Serhiivka and Tverdokhlibove in the Luhansk region, Chasiv Yar, Oleksandropil, Kalynove, Novoselivka Persha, Makarivka, Yasnobrodivka, Siversk, Deliivka, Hryhorivka, Pivnichne and Druzhba in the Donetsk region, Novoandriivka and Vozdvyzhivka in the Zaporizhzhia region, Tiahynka, Inhulivka and Tokarivka in the Kherson region, as well as Ochakiv, Shchaslyve and Petrivka in the Mykolaiv region. He noted that over the past day, Russia lost 180 people in this sector, 46 of them killed in action, as well as 54 pieces of weapons and military equipment.
The General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces earlier reported that 1,300 Russian troops were killed on the Ukraine frontline on May 23.
