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Russian Strike on Home in Kramatorsk Kills Three Brothers, Injures Mother and Grandmother
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Russian forces carried out a targeted strike on a residential home in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, killing three brothers and injuring their mother and grandmother on the evening of February 12.
The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office said the attack took place at 9:15 p.m. on February 12 and hit a residential neighborhood. A private house was directly struck, resulting in the deaths of two 19-year-old men and their 8-year-old brother.
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Their 43-year-old mother and 65-year-old grandmother were wounded. Doctors diagnosed them with blast injuries, concussions and other traumatic brain injuries, as well as bruising to the chest, spine, and arm, and contusions. Both women received medical treatment. Authorities are still determining the type of weapon used.
Prosecutors have opened a pre-trial investigation into a war crime.
On February 13 officials confirmed that the number of victims had increased to four. According to the Kramatorsk City Council, those killed in one of the strikes on the private sector were a boy born in 2017 and three men born in 2006, 2006, and 1962.
“We are establishing the final consequences of Russian terror,” Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko said.
A separate Russian drone strike in the Kharkiv region also claimed the lives of an entire young family.
On the night of February 10, at around 11:30 p.m., a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle, preliminarily identified as a Geran-2, hit a private residence in the city of Bohodukhiv, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov and the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The attack killed a 34-year-old father and his three small children — two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl. A 74-year-old woman was injured in the strike. Emergency responders pulled the children’s 35-year-old pregnant mother from the rubble. She sustained blast injuries, a traumatic brain injury, and burns.
Authorities said the family had fled the nearby town of Zolochiv only days earlier, seeking safety in Bohodukhiv.
Earlier, late on February 1, Russian troops carried out an airstrike on the village of Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region, leaving two civilians dead and three others wounded, among them two children.
The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office reported that Russian forces deployed a FAB-250 aerial bomb equipped with a UMPK guidance module. The munition hit a privately owned home where a family resided, killing a 44-year-old man and his 23-year-old son.
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