Civilian car shelled near Kyiv: two dead, four injured

Olha Hluschenko – Saturday, 5 March 2022, 06:33

In the Kyiv region, the prosecutor’s office has launched criminal proceedings over the shelling of a civilian car by the Russian occupying forces, which killed two people.

Source: Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office on Facebook

Quote: "Kyiv-Sviatoshynsky District Prosecutor’s Office of the Kyiv Region has launched criminal proceedings over the shooting of a civilian car and its civilian passengers (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)."

Details: According to the investigation, on 4 March 2022 six people were driving a car from the village of Vorzel, Bucha district, in the Kyiv region (to the northwest of Kyiv and near the towns of Irpin and Hostomel).

As they were driving, they met a column of the Russian occupying forces’ military equipment marked with the letter V, who opened fire with tank machine guns.

The shelling killed two people: a woman and a 17-year-old girl. Four other people received shrapnel wounds, including girls aged 17 and 7.

"The actions of the aggressor country’s military are qualified as violations of the laws and customs of war," the prosecuto’s office said.

Earlier, attacks by the Russian occupying forces’ attack on the village of Markhalivka in the Kyiv region killed at least 5 people, three of them children.