On the evening of August 5, Russian forces attacked a gas station in Kharkiv with a drone. The enemy used a Molniya UAV for the strike, according to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov.

A Russian drone attack in Ukraine's Kharkiv region near the border resulted in the death of two individuals on a moped. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had visited the area earlier that day. In a separate incident,

Videos posted to social media purported to show the view from a plane landing at the airport with the burning depot clearly visible.