On March 11, in the Balakliia district, the Kharkiv region, the Russians fired on three cars carrying civilians families with children. The driver of one of the cars, Valeriy, told LB.ua about it.
"We were in Petrivske village, Balakliia district. We decided to take the families somewhere because there were intense fights around," Valeriy said. Valeriy was taking out his wife and two children. In the first car, there was a family with three children. In the third car, there was a family with a small child.
"The Russians stopped us in Husarivka village. There were a lot of them there. They checked the documents. Goodbye? Goodbye. We drove on, and it started: the shooting, the glass in all the cars was falling. It seemed to me that a grenade launcher was fired from behind, or the sound came from the fact that the third car exploded, I don't know," Valeriy recalled.
According to the President's Office, no one survived in the third car.
Families from the first and second cars survived, but one child was injured in the first car.
"I can't understand why they fired? They saw that there were children in the cars," Valeriy asked. He said that another car was coming the other way in which there was a three-year-old boy with his grandparents. They also died, according to locals.
Video of the car after the windows have being taped
Earlier, on the night of March 10, the enemy fired at the house in Slobozhanske village. Immediately after the shelling, rescuers found the bodies of two children and two women. On the night of March 10, the enemy fired on Kharkiv 29 times, leaving a third of the city without gas due to damage to the gas pipeline. On March 11, the occupiers visited the Oskilskyy psychoneurological boarding school in the Kharkiv region.