An inside view of the school destroyed by the shelling of Russian troops in the village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, Kharkiv Oblast on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Sofiia Bobok/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on July 15 that a 33-year-old civilian man was killed and another was wounded in a village near the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine.
Emergency services are already working in the village of Kolodiazne, Syniehubov said.
More than half a year after Ukrainian forces liberated Kharkiv Oblast, the area continues to suffer from routine Russian shelling, resulting in civilian casualties.
"The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of Kharkiv Oblast," Syniehubov said in his Telegram post.
Asami Terajima is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent covering Ukrainian military issues, front-line developments, and politics. She is the co-author of the weekly War Notes newsletter. She previously worked as a business reporter for the Kyiv Post focusing on international trade, infrastructure, investment, and energy. Originally from Japan, Terajima moved to Ukraine during childhood and completed her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in the U.S. She is the winner of the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism 2023 (Local Reporter category) and the George Weidenfeld Prize, awarded as part of Germany's Axel Springer Prize 2023. She was also featured in the Media Development Foundation’s “25 under 25: Young and Bold” 2023 list of emerging media makers in Ukraine.
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