KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian strike on the frontline town of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine wounded four people, Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehubov said on Thursday.
Synehubov initially said two people had been killed and three injured in the strike, but subsequently he corrected his statement, adding that at present four people were wounded, including a woman who had been hauled out of the rubble.
“The enemy struck near a shop and the town market,” Synehubov said in his initial statement.
Later he said a two-storey retail building had been damaged, along with a dozen kiosks and the windows of nearby homes.
Russia occupied Kupiansk in the early days of its 2022 invasion but was pushed out by a lightning Ukrainian counter-offensive in September that year.
In recent months, Moscow’s forces have been advancing slowly back towards the town and are now less than 4 km (2.5 miles) away from its northern outskirts according to open-source maps.
(Reporting by Max Hunder; Editing by Peter Graff and Tomasz Janowski)
