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Russian attack on Kupiansk kills 2

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Russian attack on Kupiansk kills 2
Kupiansk city administration building following a Russian airstrike on the city on Feb. 17, 2024. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Russian forces struck Kupiansk with multiple rocket launchers on March 7, killing a man and a woman, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported. The attack damaged several homes, at least one vehicle was set on fire.

Later in the day, the city of Chuhuiv came under fire. Two civilians - a 17-year-old boy and a 37-year-old man - were injured, acccording to the governor. A nine-story residential building, several shops, a hotel, and about 13 cars were damaged.

Chuhuiv is strategically located some 40 kilometers from Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, which has been a frequent target by Russian forces.

In the neighboring Sumy Oblast, nearly 10 people were injured, with four of them hospitalized, following Russia's missile strike on the regional capital, Sumy, on March 7. The attack damaged the central city hospital, a regional emergency medical center, a school, and water supply infrastructure, according to the local authorities.

Sumy Oblast lies on Ukraine's northeastern border with Russia and is targeted by nearly daily Russian attacks.

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Olena Goncharova

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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"Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air," President Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. "The routes are always calculated. This cannot be an accident, a mistake, or the initiative of some lower-level commanders."

It is the third time Russian forces have used pipelines as a tactic, which they first adopted during the Battle of Avdiivka. Back in March, around 100 troops passed through a gas pipeline to reach Ukrainian positions in Sudzha, in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

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