Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling | |
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Part of the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive in the Russian invasion of Ukraine | |
Location | 1 km from the railway track between Kurylivka and Pishchane, Ukraine. |
Coordinates | 49°39′24.4″N 37°44′51.2″E / 49.656778°N 37.747556°E |
Date | September 25, 2022 ~09:00 (UTC+3)[1] |
Target | Ukrainians |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Deaths | 26[2] |
Injured | At least 3[3][4] |
Perpetrators | Russian Armed Forces |
The Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling was the killing of Ukrainian civilians carried out by the Russian Army on September 25, 2022, on the Kurylivka-Pishchane highway near Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. 26 civilians were killed.
At that time, the section of the road was in the "gray zone" (area neither fully controlled by either side).[5][6] The Ukrainian military was not able to reach the scene until 1 October 2022.
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