KYIV: Russian strikes on Thursday killed two civilians in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and another man further west in the Chernihiv region, local officials said. Oleh Synehubov, the governor of Kharkiv Oblast, said an attack by multiple rocket launchers killed two civilians in Kupiansk, an area recaptured by Ukrainian forces in late 2022 but now occupied by Russian forces.
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Synehubov, writing on Telegram, said the strike in the town of Chuhuiv, outside the regional center of Kharkiv, injured two people. An apartment building and a shop were damaged. One person was killed by mortar fire in the Chernihiv region north of Kyiv, regional governor Viačeslav Chaus said in Telegram.