A man has died in hospital from the severe injuries he suffered in the Russian attack on the market in Lozova in the Kharkiv region. This was announced by the mayor of Lozova, Serhii Zelenskyi, on his Telegram channel, as reported by the news agency Ukrinform. “The attack of 22 October has thus already claimed five lives,” Zelenskyi wrote.
The attack on the market took place on Thursday, 22 October. According to the head of the Kharkiv region military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, two dead and eleven injured were initially reported, as the news agency Interfax-Ukraine reported. Later, according to Deutsche Welle, Syniehubov named two killed women aged 50 and 60 as well as 34 injured.
24 October was a day of mourning in the community. According to Zelenskyi, further Russian attacks in the Sadivskyi administrative district damaged a school, a club, a library and an administrative building. Two women had needed help, one of them had been taken to hospital. Among those affected was a young mother with her four-year-old daughter, a family of internally displaced persons, who had already been granted the necessary support.
Later, Russia hit a warehouse building in Lozova, a fire broke out, Ukrinform reported, citing Zelenskyi. A 45-year-old man suffered severe injuries; the doctors had fought for his life until the end but could not save him. Two other men aged 26 and 43 were injured and were in hospital, and a 37-year-old woman had been helped because of severe stress.
On 24 October, according to Ukrinform, a man was killed and two other people injured in a missile attack on Lozova.
