A man has been killed and six people injured due to Russian attacks on Kharkiv Oblast on Saturday 18 October.

Source: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office

Details: A first-person view (FPV) drone hit a civilian car in the Zolochiv hromada on the morning of 18 October. One man was killed in the attack and three people suffered acute stress reactions. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

An 83-year-old man was injured around 10:00 in a Russian attack on Kivsharivka, a settlement in the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv Oblast.

Two men aged 19 and 25 were injured after Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the village of Spodobivka, also in the Kupiansk district, on Saturday.

The prosecutor's office also reported one person killed and another injured in earlier attacks on 17 October. Around 15:00, Russian troops used what is believed to be a Smerch multiple-launch rocket system to attack Zelenyi Hai, another settlement in the Kupiansk district.

Homes, farm buildings and facilities of an agricultural company were damaged. A 58-year-old man was killed, and a woman was injured in the attack.

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