The stretch of road, part of the pan-European E40 highway, is also one of the two main logistics routes from Kyiv to front-line areas in eastern Ukraine.

In the Poltava region, Russian forces attacked a fire and rescue unit and gas stations. — Ukrinform.

Russian forces have destroyed more than 80 petrol stations in Kharkiv Oblast, leaving the Kharkiv-Poltava road completely without filling stations.