Kharkiv

The Russian army launched a rocket attack on Merefa in Kharkiv region, damaging civilian buildings and injuring a 55-year-old woman.

An 11-year-old boy died after his family secretly returned to a dangerous village in the Kharkiv region, despite having been evacuated earlier, as a result of enemy shelling.

Another 51 settlements in Ukraine, including 7 cities and 44 villages, will be renamed as part of the decolonization process.

The Russian army has attacked the town of Merefa in Kharkiv region, Brigadier General Serhiy Melnyk reports.

russian shelling caused a large-scale forest fire of over 9 hectares in the Kharkiv region, which was extinguished without casualties.

A 69-year-old man was wounded when Russians shelled the village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, Kupyansk district, Kharkiv region, damaging residential buildings and a car.

A former police officer from Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, has been notified of suspicion of treason after she deliberately collaborated with the occupiers by issuing Russian passports to local residents while the city was under Russian control.

Zelenskiy defended Ukraine's strikes on Russian targets, saying that "Russia understands nothing but force," and Western partners should support Ukraine's response to Russian aggression.

At night, Russian troops attacked the village of Borova, Kharkiv region, with two Grom E-1 missiles, damaging an educational institution and school garages.

In March alone, Russian forces used more than 400 missiles, 600 Shaheds and 3,000 guided aerial bombs to terrorize various Ukrainian cities and border towns, and Kharkiv is undergoing daily missile, drone and aerial bomb attacks that are destroying critical infrastructure and residential buildings, underscoring the urgent need for reliable air defense systems to protect the lives and cities of Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.

Due to the bad weather, 337 settlements in 7 regions of Ukraine are without electricity, no shortage is expected.

A brother and sister are detained in Kharkiv region for scouting railroad tracks to help Russian forces plan sabotage against Ukrainian arms supply trains.

Russians are spreading fake messages calling on Kharkiv residents to evacuate because of the alleged possible encirclement. However, the enemy does not currently have the resources to surround or capture Kharkiv.

A military official from Kharkiv region took UAH 1. 05 million from 14 subordinates, promising to transfer them to another unit and help one of them avoid punishment, but had no intention of fulfilling these promises.

In Kharkiv region, Russian forces shelled several settlements, damaging residential buildings, an educational institution, and causing power outages; casualties were reported in Novoozynove, where a 58-year-old man and his 11-year-old son were killed.

In the Kharkiv region, Russian occupants killed an 11-year-old boy and his 58-year-old father during the shelling of Novooosynove village in Kupiansk district.

Russian shelling of Novoosynove village in Kharkiv region killed one civilian and wounded a child.

A Russian soldier was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for the murder of a 35-year-old woman in occupied Izium because she spoke Ukrainian.

Two recruiting centers of the Ukrainian army have opened in Kharkiv, offering a variety of vacancies.

In Kharkiv, 18 streets were de-russified and an entrance was named in honor of Ukrainian military pilot Andriy Pilshchikov, call sign "Dzhus.

A 28-year-old Russian FSB officer illegally detained Ukrainians, ran a filtration camp in Zaporizhzhia region where detainees were tortured, and organized mock executions.

In the morning, the damage limited the power supply to all consumers in Kharkiv region, while restrictions on industry continued in Kryvyi Rih. No electricity exports are planned.

Russian troops attacked the village of Liptsy in Kharkiv region at night, damaging civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, outbuildings, shops and warehouses.

The Security Service of Ukraine detained a Russian agent who was spying on Ukrainian military aircraft and air defense facilities near Kryvyi Rih to obtain intelligence for potential missile strikes by Russia.

Russian troops fired mortars, artillery, and S-300 missile systems at about 15 settlements in Kharkiv region, damaging buildings and injuring two civilians in Vovchansk and Kupiansk.

At about 15:00, the Russian occupiers shelled the village of Kurylivka, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, damaging private houses, but there were no casualties.

Ukrainian power engineers restored electricity to 715,000 households after Russian shelling in various regions, including Odesa, Dnipro, Donetsk and Kyiv.

Rescuers are working to extinguish a fire in a forestry on an area of almost 5 hectares near the village of Yasinya, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathia, with 104 people and 17 vehicles involved.

A 60-year-old woman died while burning dry grass in an open area near the village of Krysyne, Kharkiv region.

In Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region, a man grabbed a police officer's assault rifle and shot himself in the head, committing suicide.