Volodymyr Tymoshko, the head of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, reported this.
"Three guided bombs have just hit the private sector of Vovchansk. Preliminary, one woman (about 40 years old) died under the rubble of a house and one was injured. Police and the State Emergency Service are working at the scene," he wrote.
In his turn, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, clarified that the shelling took place around 10 a.m. The attack damaged at least 12 private residential buildings.
"A 40-year-old civilian woman died as a result of a direct hit to a private house. A 67-year-old woman sustained minor injuries, she was not hospitalized," said Syniehubov.