(Previous Incident Code: RUK0110)

Between four and five civilians were injured by confirmed Russian shelling of the city of Lozova on April 2, 2022.

On April 2nd, numerous reports described that alleged Russian shelling damaged numerous homes and left four individuals “moderately wounded” in the Lozova section of Kharkiv.  This was initially reported by Kharkiv human rights group. Novynarnia news reported that Russian forces shelled private residential buildings, a transformer substation and a warehouse building, resulting in at least 5 people receiving shrapnel wounds. The injured civilians were hospitalized in the district hospital.

Suspiline Media quoted Lozova mayor Serhiy Zelensky as saying that while no children were injured in the attack, there were “damaged houses” and his team “[was] calculating the consequences”.

Ukrinform News reported that damage will require “three days” according to Zelensky (also listed as the head of Lozova Territorial Community), and the city was left without electricity and water. This description was posted by Zelensky on Facebook and later used in reports by Nv.ua and Interfax News. Hromadske News offered more details by stating that “at least five people received shrapnel wounds and were hospitalized”.

All of the local sources that reported on the incident attributed the incident to Russian forces. The Russian state-run media RT quoted a Russian government official who admitted to carrying out airstrikes in Lozova. Major General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry, noted that “On the afternoon of April 2, high-precision air-launched missiles in the areas of the Lozovaya and Pavlograd railway stations destroyed armored vehicles, ammunition and fuel tanks sent to reinforce the grouping of Ukrainian troops in Donbas.”

This incident has ACLED’s reference code UKR68085.