Russian attack on postal terminal: one victim cannot be identified, DNA test to be conducted
Pravda Ukraine
One of the persons killed in the Russian attack on the Nova Posta [Ukrainian postal service – ed.] terminal in Kharkiv Oblast got burned so badly that he is going to be identified through DNA analysis.
Source: Serhii Bolvinov, Head of the Investigative Department of the Supreme Department of the National Police of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast, on Facebook
Quote: “Six people have died on the spot – all men, postal department employees. One of them got burned really badly, his identity has likely been established but we will conduct a DNA test to confirm it.”
Details: Bolvinov revealed that law enforcement officers were working on the site of the strike all night.
The 16 injured people received mine blast injuries, shrapnel wounds, fractures and tear wounds. They are all being treated in the Kharkiv Oblast Clinical Hospital.
The condition of eight of them is evaluated as critical, of eight more as moderate.
The police stress that all the victims are civilians, and this attack is a war crime.
Background:
- On 21 October, a Russian missile hit a depot in Kharkiv Oblast belonging to the Nova Poshta delivery company.
- A Russian missile hit a Kharkiv depot belonging to the Nova Poshta delivery company. The workers who were there had no chance or time to run for cover, as the air-raid warning was issued only a second before the explosion.
- On the evening of 21 October, Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, and Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv, reported that Russian troops had launched missile strikes on the city.
- Later the police disclosed the details of the Russian attack on the settlement of Korotych in the Kharkiv district in which 6 people died and 16 more got injured.
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