In the morning, an 11-year-old child who was wounded during the Russian shelling of the Kupyansk area in the Kharkiv region died in the hospital.
This was reported by the head of the Regional Military Administration Oleh Synyehubov.
In the evening of April 2, Russian troops shelled the village of Novoosynove. The 59-year-old father of the child died on the spot, and the 11-year-old boy was hospitalized with injuries.
- Russian troops invaded the territory of the Kharkiv region at the beginning of a large-scale war — on February 24, 2022, but they could not capture the regional center. Currently, 29 settlements in the region remain under occupation, the Regional Military Administration reported.