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Three individuals have been pulled from the rubble and one individual stays trapped after Russia attacked a resort in Kharkiv within the early hours of Tuesday, in accordance with officers in Ukraine.

The three-storey resort within the Bohodukhiv area in northeastern Ukraine has been destroyed, Kharkiv oblast governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned on his official Telegram channel.

“One person is currently under the rubble, three people were rescued; two women and a man. The store facade is also on fire,” the Ukrainian official mentioned round 6.30am native time on Tuesday. A Kyiv Independent report described the individuals caught up within the assault as civilians.

The resort is within the Zolochiv city of the oblast’s Bohodukhiv area, about 40km (24.8miles) from town’s administrative centre.

Russian forces have repeatedly focused the northeastern metropolis, which is simply 30km (18miles) from the Russian border, with missile, mortar and artillery assaults because the starting of Putin’s invasion in February 2022.

The assaults have surged in the previous couple of weeks and earlier this week, Russia fired artillery and mortar on 18 settlements within the oblast.

Former deputy chief of Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces mentioned Russia is indiscriminately attacking town to trigger ethical and psychological stress.

“Kharkiv is their priority, because [Vladimir] Putin can’t forgive the fact that a Russian-speaking city did not want to become part of the Russian world, Lieutenant-General Ihor Romanenko told Al Jazeera.

At the end of January, a Russian missile attack tore through a residential five-storey building killing 10 people and injuring 60 others.

And Russia launched another massive attack on Kyiv and Kharkiv on 2 January, using hypersonic and cruise missiles. The attack killed four people and injured 92 others.

On Monday evening, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed a surge in Russian attacks along the war’s frontline.

“Within the last 24 hours, missile units launched attacks on one cluster of manpower, two control points and two ammunition storage points of the enemy. The enemy fired seven missiles and launched 25 airstrikes, as well as 52 attacks from multiple-launch rocket systems,” it mentioned.

Russian forces additionally tried to breach the Ukrainian defence in northeast Ukraine with at the very least eight assaults within the Kharkiv oblast on the Kupiansk. The assaults had been repelled, the officers mentioned.