{"id":1246581,"date":"2025-06-16T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-russian-army-struck-a-residential-area-in-kupyansk\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T05:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:42:42","slug":"the-russian-army-struck-a-residential-area-in-kupyansk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-russian-army-struck-a-residential-area-in-kupyansk\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Forces Launch Deadly Strike on Residential Area in Kupyansk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday, June 16, Russian forces launched an airstrike targeting a residential neighborhood in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, marking another attack on civilian infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/prokuratura_kharkiv\/23557\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"193\">Russia attacked the city at approximately 3:40 p.m., striking a residential apartment building and igniting a fire.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"459\">The number of casualties is currently being verified, but preliminary reports suggest that at least three civilians may have been killed in the airstrike. Additionally, it is known that a man and a woman sustained acoustic barotrauma as a result of the blast wave.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"619\">The Prosecutor\u2019s Office emphasized that the situation in the city remains difficult, making an on-site inspection challenging due to ongoing security threats.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"867\">&#8220;Under the procedural guidance of the Kupyansk District Prosecutor\u2019s Office in the Kharkiv region, a pre-trial investigation has been launched into the commission of a war crime (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),&#8221; the statement reads.<br \/>\nAs a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-atakuvaly-z-drona-tsyvilnu-avtivku-u-bilozertsi-ie-poranenyy\/\">Russian occupiers fired on a civilian car in the village of Bilozerka<\/a> in the Kherson region. A 42-year-old man was injured as a result of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, June 16, Russian forces launched an airstrike targeting a residential neighborhood in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, marking another attack on civilian infrastructure. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. Russia attacked the city at approximately 3:40 p.m., striking a residential apartment building and igniting a fire. The number of casualties is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1246577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1246581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246629,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246581\/revisions\/1246629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}