In the evening, Russian occupation forces shelled the village of Chuhujiv in the Kharkiv region, according to preliminary information, six people died there, four were injured, and the information is being updated, Synehubov said.
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According to him, five people died in Kharkov due to Russian shelling and eleven suffered injuries. Four people have died elsewhere in the area, including an eight-year-old child whose mother is injured, he added.
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After weeks of relative calm, Russian invasion forces intensified shelling in the area, Reuters reported.
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Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city in the northeast, experienced intense Russian shelling during the first weeks of Russian military aggression, which Moscow launched on February 24.
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“The occupiers are again shelling residential areas in Kharkov and using terror against the civilian population!” Synehubov said earlier in the day.
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The governor urged the inhabitants of the city to be extremely careful, they should take to the streets only in really necessary cases. “It’s extremely dangerous now!” warned.
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The shelling caused outages in the city of electricity and water, and a fire broke out in the industrial zone.
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