Russian strikes kill one and injure another civilian in Kharkiv Oblast attacks

The Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported that the Russian military attacked the city of Kupiansk and the village of Vilkhuvatka in the Kharkiv Oblast on June 29, 2025, killing one person and seriously injuring another.

 

According to the investigation, at around 10 a.m., Russian forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the village of Vilkhuvatka in the Kupiansk District, dropping four guided aerial bombs. The attack damaged houses.

At 1:30 p.m., Russian armed forces launched an artillery attack on a residential neighbourhood in Kupiansk. Russians killed a 54-year-old man and injured a 32-year-old man, who is currently in the hospital in serious condition.

Previously, the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported that at around 2:30 p.m. on June 25, Russian armed forces attacked the village of Petro-Ivanivka in the Kupiansk District and killed a 60-year-old man.

 

“The data obtained during the investigation indicates that on 25 June at approximately 10:00, Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the village of Hryhorivka in the Kupiansk district. Early reports indicate that the occupiers dropped four FAB-250 bombs equipped with a UMPK unified gliding and correction module on the settlement. More than 10 houses were damaged.”

Later that day, the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported that one person was killed and another injured in a Russian airstrike on the village of Vodiane in the Kharkiv Oblast.

 

“The Russian army launched an airstrike on the village of Vodiane in the Kupiansk District at around 3:40 a.m. on June 25. A guided aerial bomb hit a residential area. A 49-year-old woman died. Her husband, who is the same age, was injured and taken to the hospital,” the statement of the prosecutor’s office reads. 

At around 11 p.m. on June 24, Russians launched an airstrike on the town of Kupiansk, injuring four women and two men.

 On May 24, Andrii Besiedin, head of the Kupiansk City Military Administration, stated that 90% of Kupiansk had been damaged or destroyed and described the situation in the hromadaі as critical. 

On June 7, Ukraine’s National Police reported the murder of at least six residents and the injury of 44 others in Kharkiv Oblast. The attacks targeted the city of Kharkiv and the Izium, Kharkiv, Chuhuiv and Kupiansk Districts, with Russian forces deploying missiles, guided aerial bombs, loitering munitions and Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicles.

In the evening, Russian forces struck a children’s railway in Kharkiv with FAB-500 bombs, killing a 30-year-old woman and injuring 18 people. A 63-year-old man later died in the hospital from his injuries.

It is known that in Kozacha Lopan village, a guided aerial bomb strike killed a 73-year-old man and injured a 46-year-old resident that day. In Staryi Saltiv village, a drone exploded between a shop and a church, injuring three people: two women, aged 46 and 50, and a 30-year-old man. In the village of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, Russian forces wounded a 45-year-old man in a guided aerial bomb attack.

That day, Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, reported Russia had attacked Kharkiv with 53 Shahed UAVs, four guided aerial bombs and one missile.

A UAV hit a nine-story residential building in the Osnovianskyy District. Fire engulfed 12 apartments on the sixth, seventh and eighth floors, with the total fire area covering 600 square meters. Rescue workers pulled a woman from under the rubble, and she is receiving medical treatment. The attack also destroyed two cars.

In a large-scale drone attack on the city of Balakliia in the Izium District in the Kharkiv Oblast, Russians killed one civilian and injured another on the night of June 2-3, according to Vitalii Karabanov,  head of the Balakliia City Military Administration/ Some of the strikes hit premises belonging to a civilian business and open land. The attacks also ignited dry vegetation that night.

Later that day, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Kivsharivka in the Kupiansk District, two women were killed.

 According to the investigation, around 4:30 p.m., the Russian military shelled a residential area in Kivsharivka.

A 64-year-old woman died at the scene. Another local resident, aged 62, sustained severe injuries and later died.