A total of 21.9 metric tons of equipment donated by Lithuania has been delivered to the Kharkiv region from the Ministry of Energy’s emergency energy aid warehouses.
In the Kharkiv region, in the Derhachi community, Russians struck an emergency gas service team with a guided aerial bomb while it was repairing gas leaks in buildings that had been shelled. No one was injured.
Over the previous day, the Russian army struck Kharkiv and 23 settlements in the region, killing four people and injuring 48 others. One of the injured is a child.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops attacked Kharkiv and 29 other settlements in the region. Two people were killed and 18 others were wounded in the shelling, including five children.
On the morning of July 16, the Russian military struck a civilian enterprise near Kharkiv, injuring four passengers aboard a minibus that was passing the area during the attack.
In Kharkiv, a Russian drone attack caused a fire in a residential area, and buildings on the grounds of the central park and civilian infrastructure were damaged.