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Airwars assessment
Two civilians were injured in alleged Russian shellings of Chuhuiv district on April 20, 2022.
Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, posted on Telegram that a total of five civilians were injured throughout the day of April 20th – three were injured in the city of Kharkiv and two were injured in Chuhuiv district. Oleg added that there was a total of 15 shelling in Kharkiv using rocket salvo system.
Oleg Sinegubo was the only source that attributed the shelling to Russian forces. The Russian MOD explicitly rejected carrying out this attack, posting on their Telegram that the videos purported to show this attack are actually of a gas leak explosion from 2016. None of the videos cited by the Russian MOD were used as sources for this incident.
This incident has ACLED’s reference code: UKR56160
The incident occured at approximately 12:00 pm local time.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention Chuhuiv district (Чугуївський район), for which the generic coordinates are: 49.93253, 36.78228. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.