"Over the past day, the occupiers launched 54 attacks from various types of long-range weapons: artillery, mortar, tank shelling, MLRS shelling. The districts of Saltivka, Pyatykhatky, Oleksiyivka, Kholodna Hora, Derhachi, Barvinkove, Chuhuiv were affected. There are civilian casualties in yesterday's shelling of Kharkiv and Chuhuiv. In Kharkiv and the district – four people killed, three people hospitalized. In Chuhuiv district – two people killed, five people injured," Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synehubov posted on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
He noted that residents of Barvinkove and Lozova were recommended to leave.
"Kharkiv region is ready for any scenarios, our Armed Forces of Ukraine are on the positions and defend the region. We have to hold a strong rear," Synehubov added.
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On February 24, Russian president Putin started a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops shell and destroy infrastructure, massively fire on the residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages using artillery, MLRS, and ballistic missiles.
