Russian glide bombs struck Izium in the Kharkiv region on Monday morning. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov. The attack occurred on the morning of Monday, 2 November.
According to preliminary information, one of the bombs hit a four-storey residential building. Cars caught fire, and there were also reports of a fire in a post office. All emergency services are on site, and according to the authorities the injured are receiving the necessary medical care. The number of those affected and the extent of the damage were still being clarified, it was said.
The Izium city military administration also reported that the city is completely without power as a result of damaged high-voltage lines. The news outlet Ukrainska Pravda put the number of casualties, citing the oblast administration, at 9.30 a.m. local time.
The outlet Nowyny.LIVE reports, citing Syniehubov, that 11 settlements in the Kharkiv region came under fire within one day. Izium was the most heavily damaged: two apartment blocks and 20 private houses, four cars, a petrol station, bank premises, a shopping and entertainment centre, a notary’s office and power grids were damaged there. In the settlement of Shevchenkove in Kupiansk Raion, an apartment block and two private houses were damaged; in VasyShcheve in Kharkiv Raion, four apartment blocks, five private houses, two cars, warehouses of a civilian company and power grids.
In total, 19 people were injured in the oblast within one day, including a three-year-old child, reports Nowyny.LIVE. In Izium, men aged 24 and 67 and women aged 61 and 85 were injured; a 59-year-old woman suffered an acute stress reaction.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as reported by Nowyny.LIVE, 205 combat engagements were recorded at the front last night. In the Pivdenno-Slobozhanskyi direction, Ukrainian units repelled eight attacks; in the Kupiansk area there were three assault actions.
