Geolocation
Airwars assessment
An elderly woman was killed and another woman was injured by an alleged Russian attack against a vehicle in Izium district, Kharkiv on April 16, 2022.
A Facebook post from Sergiy Bolvinov, who works for the Investigative Department of State Police in Kharkiv region, reported that while a family was trying to evacuate, Russian forces fired at two cars, which were carrying five adults and one child in one of the cars. The result was that the child’s mother and grandmother were wounded, and the grandmother died from her injuries. The injured woman was taken to Sakhnovshchyna Central District Hospital.
Other local sources quoted Sergiy’s information on the incident. No other details are available.
This incident has reference to ACLED code UKR71252.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention vehicles struck in the Izium district (Ізюмський район), for which the generic coordinates are: 49.25495, 37.10883. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.