War crimes prosecutors on the scene in Kivsharivka, Kharkiv Oblast, after Russia launched two guided bombs that killed two people and injured four others. (Photo: Prosecutor General's Office / Telegram)
Russian forces launched two guided bombs at the village of Kivsharivka, killing two people and injuring four others, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on June 2.
According to Syniehubov, a residential building was damaged by the guided bomb attack. An elderly man and woman were killed, while three women and a three-year-old boy sustained injuries.
Emergency services are on-site and additional information is being verified.
Russian forces also launched two S-300 rockets, which are repurposed air defense missiles, at the village of Zmiiv. There were no casualties, Syniehubov wrote.
Kharkiv Oblast, situated in northeastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, faces near-daily attacks.
Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent and is partially supported by a generous grant from the Nadia Sophie Seiler Fund. The U.S. publisher Deep Vellum published her co-translation of Ukrainian author Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker in 2024. Some of her other writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine.
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