(Previous Incident Code: RUK0169)

A 59 year old civilian was killed and three other civilians, including a child and a woman, were injured by alleged Russian shelling of Chuhuiv on April 24, 2022.

Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the Main Department of the National Police of the Kharkiv region, announced on Facebook that Russian shelling of Chuhuiv resulted in the injury to a child and her mother. The child was born in 2010 and sustained shrapnel injuries to the right and left thigh, and right and left shin. The mother was born in 1986 and sustained shrapnel injuries to the left thigh. Another local resident born in 1953 sustained shrapnel injuries to the back on the left and air accumulation in the lung cavity.

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office announced they were conducting a pre-trial investigation into the artillery shelling of the city of Chuhuiv at around 12:00 resulted in the death of a 59 year old resident and the injury of three others, including an 11 year old boy, as well as damage and destruction to residential buildings.

Mayor Galina Minayeva confirmed to Suspilne Media that there was destruction in the private sector and high-rise buildings in Chuhuiv due to shelling.

All of the sources that reported on the incident attributed the shelling to Russian forces. Multiple local sources pointed out that the shelling occurred on Orthodox Easter holiday.

This assessment has reference to ACLED code UKR56429.