Russian drone attacks police officer's car as he evacuates people from Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast – photos

Photo: Volodymyr Tymoshko, Kharkiv National Police Chief
Photo: Volodymyr Tymoshko, Kharkiv National Police Chief

Russian drones hit a police officer's car as he was evacuating people from Vovchansk hromada on 21 May. The officer suffered a contusion. (A hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories – ed.)

Source: Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine; Volodymyr Tymoshko, the Chief of Kharkiv Oblast branch of the National Police, on Facebook

Quote: "The investigation found that a hostile FPV drone hit a police officer's car in the border hromada of Vovchansk, when he was on his way to evacuate people on 21 May (a hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.). The policeman suffered a contusion."

 

Photo: Volodymyr Tymoshko, Kharkiv National Police Chief

Details: Tymoshko noted that they managed to evacuate people anyway.

Law enforcement officers also documented the aftermath of Russian airstrikes on civilian infrastructure in the city of Zolochiv. Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported that the Russian invaders damaged three high-rise apartment buildings, a kindergarten, a school, administrative buildings, and a café.

 

Photo: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office

At least 22 shops were completely destroyed. Previously, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the town using four aerial munitions.

 

Photo: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office

In addition, the Russians damaged households in the village of Myrne, Kupiansk district, and civilian infrastructure in the central part of the village of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi.

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