In Kharkiv region, two people killed in Russian shelling at night, 10 more were injured (updated)
Two civilians were killed and 10 others were injured in the Kharkiv Oblast during a large-scale Russian attack on the night of August 5, 2025, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) and the regional military administration.
Overnight, the Russian army launched one ballistic missile and 46 drones of various types at Ukraine.
In its morning report, the Ukrainian Air Force stated it had neutralized 29 of the drones but confirmed hits at 17 locations.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian forces struck railway infrastructure in the town of Lozova. Officials have confirmed one fatality and ten people injured, including two children.
Local officials described the drone assault on the town as the most massive since the beginning of the full-scale war. They noted that major casualties were avoided because most residents had time to move to shelters.
Due to the attack, train No. 66/65 – 166/165, connecting Uman, Cherkasy, and Kharkiv, is running on a detour route.
Explosions were also reported in Odesa during the night, though authorities there have not yet released official information on the consequences of any impacts.
The attack follows a deadly previous day, when Russian shelling on Monday resulted in fatalities and injuries in the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Meanwhile, the number of people killed in the Russian attack on July 29 on the village of Novoplatonivka in Izium District, the Kharkiv Oblast, has risen to seven. The Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported that on the morning of August 5, an 85-year-old woman who had been wounded in the attack died in hospital.
Earlier, Bohdan Bernatskyy, a member of the Sanctions Policy Working Group of the Crimean Platform Expert Network, revealed at the Third Parliamentary Summit in Latvia that over 1,300 Russian military companies and 2 million industrial workers continue to operate, many without international restrictions.
As is known, including China, North Korea, India, and Brazil, assist Moscow in killing citizens of Ukraine in Russia’s war, including funding the Russian budget through trade.
The European Union intends to push for sanctions against China over its support for Russia in the war against Ukraine. An unnamed EU diplomat, in comments to a Politico journalist, said that the EU made this move following a July report by Reuters, which revealed that Russia had secretly obtained Chinese engines for drones.
Companies reportedly shipped the engines to Russia via front companies under the label of “industrial refrigeration units” to circumvent Western sanctions.
The report raised an alarm in Brussels. Fifteen EU member states contacted Beijing about the deliveries, but China either denied involvement or refused to respond.
Previously, Reuters reported that Russian energy giant Gazprom’s average daily natural gas supplies to Europe increased by 37% in July from a month earlier, when maintenance work reduced them.
Reuters also reported that a top aide to President Donald Trump on Sunday accused India of effectively financing Russia’s war in Ukraine by purchasing oil from Moscow, after the U.S. leader escalated pressure on New Delhi to stop buying Russian oil.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump stated on his social media platform Truth Social that he plans to significantly increase tariffs on imports from India due to its active trade in Russian oil.
He said that India “is not only buying massive amounts of Russian oil”, but also selling it on the open market for big profits.
“They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian war machine. Because of this, I will be substantially raising the tariff paid by India to the USA,” the President stated.
India has become the world’s largest buyer of seaborne Russian oil, purchasing it at a discount and boosting its imports from almost zero to about a third of its total oil imports.
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said that implementing secondary sanctions against countries that purchase Russian oil is an “obvious step” toward ending the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.
“Secondary sanctions and tariffs against those that are paying for this war — like China, India, and Brazil — by buying the oil that Russia is producing, is an obvious next step to try and bring this war to an end,” Matt Whitaker, the US ambassador to NATO, told Bloomberg Television. “This is really going to hit them where it counts, and that is in their main revenue source, which is the sale of oil to these countries.”
