Police: Russian sniper killed 10-year-old girl in Kharkiv region

A 10-year-old girl died, her grandparents were injured.

This was reported by the press service of the National Police.

According to the grandfather of the deceased girl Nikolai Kivshar, before the war, the 10-year-old girl lived with her parents in Kharkov. The child was transferred to the village of Novy Burluk, believing that it would be safer there. On February 25, the girl, together with her grandfather, went to the store to pick up her grandmother. At this time, a Russian sniper shot through their car. The bullet hit the child and went through. While transporting a wounded girl to a medical facility in the city of Chuguev, their car came under fire again. The girl died, the grandfather and grandmother were injured. The man carried the body of the child in his arms to the nearest village. First, he buried his granddaughter in the courtyard of his own house, and then reburied him in the cemetery, the report says.

From the first day of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the village of Novy Burluk fell under the occupation of the enemy, police said. According to local residents, Russian army soldiers settled in the homes of citizens, took away cars, took away livestock, food, looted and killed.