Ukrainian border guards have successfully destroyed 22 Russian vehicles, an armored combat vehicle, a 122-mm D-30 howitzer, a R-330 M1P Diabazol electronic warfare system control center, and a fuel depot in the Kharkiv region.
Drone pilots from the 4th Border Detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have destroyed a Russian shelter, surveillance camera, and antenna, as well as targeted four enemy positions in Kharkiv region using drones.
In the Kharkiv region, a Russian FPV drone using fiber-optic control targeted the Pomsta sniper unit of the 3rd Border Guard Detachment, named after Hero of Ukraine Colonel Yevhen Pikus. Fortunately, an armored vehicle protected the border guards, saving their lives.
In Kharkiv, the head of the Territorial center for recruitment and social support (TCR and SS) and his deputy have been suspended from duty for the duration of the investigation into the death of a man who jumped out of a window on May 12.
Throughout the day, Russian forces shelled the town of Kupiansk and surrounding areas in Kharkiv region, injuring four civilians and damaging residential buildings.
A man was killed and a woman was injured in the village of Nechvolodivka, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, as a result of a Russian airstrike with guided aerial bombs. Another woman may still be trapped under the rubble.
Russian troops launched a daytime airstrike with a guided aerial bomb (KAB) at the residential area of the village of Sadovod in Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region. Homes were damaged and two women were injured.
Regaining control over an area located north of the village of Lyptsi in Kharkiv region has allowed Ukrainian forces to push the line of contact farther from Kharkiv and strengthen the defense of the entire region.
In Kharkiv region, as a result of a Russian strike on Velykyi Burluk, Kupiansk district, on May 7, buses of the Prolisok humanitarian mission, which operate social routes in frontline settlements, were damaged.