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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 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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