““The man was wounded and injured, the 80-year-old resident had an acute stress reaction. Currently, the victims are being provided with the necessary medical assistance.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the agency, the attack occurred around 5:40 p.m.
“The enemy attacked the private residential sector, as a result of which houses and farm buildings were damaged,” the press service said.
According to prosecutors, five people were injured in the shelling, although earlier the head of the OVA Oleg Synegubov reported on six victims.
“The man was wounded and injured, the 80-year-old resident had an acute stress reaction. Currently, the victims are being provided with the necessary medical assistance,” the prosecutor’s office specified.
It is also known that the Russian Federation hit Lozova with an air defense missile launched from the occupied territory of Ukraine.
“Its modification and flight range are being determined. This is the first case of the use of a guided aerial bomb in the city of Lozova. Additional details will be communicated after the completion of all investigative and expert actions,” the publication said.
Later, the prosecutor’s office clarified that it was a jet bomb.
“The city of Lozova was hit by a guided aerial bomb of a new modification – UMPB-5R (reactive type), which covered a distance of approximately 130 km,” the department emphasized.
In the evening of October 18, the Sids of the Russian Federation struck Lozova in the Kharkiv Region, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said in a statement.
“Russian troops tonight (October 18 – ed.) hit the residential sector of the city of Lozova, in the Kharkiv region. Previously, two women were injured. A private house was damaged, a fire broke out,” the State Emergency Service said.
Emergency workers added that rescuers and a community rescue officer were involved in the liquidation.
The Russian military regularly attacks Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles.
The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.