Enemy attacks Kharkiv region’s Borova, man injured

Enemy attacks Kharkiv region’s Borova, man injured

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On the morning of August 31, 2023, Russian troops shelled the Izium district’s urban-type settlement of Borova in the Kharkiv region.

The relevant statement was made by Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Syniehubov on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

Around 00:00 (midnight), Russians attacked the Kupiansk district’s village of Vilkhivka. An uninhabited house was damaged, and a fire broke out.

“Around 05:00 a.m., the enemy shelled the Izium district’s urban-type settlement of Borova. A civilian man, 48, was injured and taken to hospital,” the report states.

Over the past day, Russian troops have used cannon and rocket artillery, mortars and other weapons to attack settlements in the Bohodukhiv, Izium, Chuhuiv and Kupiansk districts.

Following Russian attacks, a solid domestic waste landfill caught fire in the Kupiansk district’s village of Osynove.

In Kupiansk, a detached house was damaged, and a fire broke out.

At least two detached houses, household buildings, four garages and a car were damaged in Russia’s multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) attack on the Chuhuiv district’s Vovchansk. Fires broke out.

Power transmission lines and a gas pipeline were hit as Russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on the Izium district’s village of Shyikivka.

In the Izium district’s Zahryzlove, a house was damaged as Russians attacked the village, presumably with cluster munitions from the Uragan MLRS.

Over the past day, explosives experts from the Ukrainian State Emergency Service have inspected more than eight hectares and neutralized 59 dangerous objects.

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