At least 24 civilians, including a dozen children, were found shot dead in their cars in northeastern Ukraine, near Kupiansk, regional governor Oleg Synegoubov announced on Saturday.
“A convoy of cars with dead civilians on board has been discovered,” he said on Telegram. According to a preliminary count that he communicated, “24 people including a pregnant woman and 13 children” were killed. “The (Russian) occupiers attacked these civilians who were trying to escape the shelling.” “They fired point-blank,” he added.
According to Mr. Synegoubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, where the bodies were discovered, “police and experts went to the spot” and “an investigation is underway”.
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, seven cars driven by civilians were found. “Two cars burned completely, there were children with their parents: they burned alive,” he said in a statement.