One person killed and four injured in overnight Russian attack on Kharkiv Oblast
The Russians attacked Kupyansk, Chuhuiv, Izyum, Bohoduhiv and Kharkiv districts of the oblast, the message reads.
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A 29-year-old man was killed, and two others, aged 39 and 54, were injured in Kupyansk District. There were also reports of forest fires and damage to houses in the district.
Elsewhere in Kharkiv Oblast, a 48-year-old man was injured in the village of Horohovatka in Izyum District due to shelling, and a 63-year-old man was injured in Vovchansk, Chuhuiv District, by a Russian attack.
The occupiers used a Kalibr cruise missile to target the village of Kotliary in Kharkiv District, but their were no casualties or significant damage.
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A pre-trial investigation in the violation of the laws and customs of war has been launched.
Ukraine's air defence downed 20 enemy suicide drones and two cruise missiles attacking Poltava, Odesa, and Kharkiv oblasts the same day.
Russian invasion troops regularly shell civilian residential areas in other Ukrainian oblasts close to Russian territory or Russian-occupied territory, including Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and and Mykolaiv oblasts. The International Criminal Court recently announced that it was opening two war crimes cases against Russia, one of which concerns illegal attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Russia claims to have annexed Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson oblasts, but it does not have complete control over any of them. It lost control of the city of Kherson – the only major Ukrainian regional center it managed to capture in its full-scale invasion – in early November last year, and has so far been forced to retreat from small parts of Zhytomyr Oblast, and parts of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy Kharkiv, Luhansk and Kherson oblasts.
About 18% of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory remains under Russian occupation – including Ukraine’s Crimea and the parts of the Donbas that were invaded by Russia in 2014.
The Kremlin falsely declared it had annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 – but this claim has only been recognized by a handful of the world’s rogue and pariah states.
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According to international law, Crimea remains part of Ukraine, although is has been under Russian military occupation since 2014.
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