Governors: Five dead from Russian fire in Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv and Kherson

The three victims are a 72-year-old woman, a 50-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man, Prokudin said.

Oleg Synegubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said two people were killed and 22 injured in Russian attacks on a “civilian infrastructure facility” in the village of Budy.

The village is located southwest of the regional capital Kharkiv.

The Ukrainian army said in its daily update that the Kharkiv region, which has been the focus of a new Russian offensive for two months, is “under constant fire from enemy aircraft.”

In recent months, Russian forces have advanced along the entire front line, making gradual advances against often numerically and technologically inferior Ukrainian troops, who are waiting for further Western arms deliveries.

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