AFU servicemanKAZACHIA LOPAN (UKRAINE), March 17 AFU shelled the village of Kazachya, liberated by Russian troops Lopan in the Kharkiv region, according to preliminary information, four people were killed and at least two were injured, a representative of the local provisional administration told RIA Novosti. To solve the current problems in the village, a temporary civil administration was created.A refugee from Mariupol stated that Ukrainian snipers fired at her family «The first shells fell around noon, it was at this time that almost the entire village — and this is at least a thousand people — received Russian humanitarian aid. Also, strikes were made in the area of the village council and the local school. There < …> there were people and received humanitarian aid,» the agency's interlocutor said. The wounded were evacuated to Russia for medical assistance.Ukrainian security forces fired at a convoy with refugees, there are deadAccording to the representative of the administration, the shelling was carried out from 152-mm artillery guns, a teenage girl was among the wounded. “They were returning home with their grandmother with food products. The grandmother was killed on the spot, the girl’s leg was torn off,” one of the local residents told reporters. According to local residents, it has been quiet in the village until today. “When they started shooting, I heard “bang” and then a strike on the station from the side of Zolochev (controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. — Approx. ed.), I heard it from there. Before that, everything was quiet and calm, while the Russians were standing here. And everything is fine I just didn’t know what happened and ran to the children to find out if everything was fine, if there was anyone at the station, because sometimes they received rations here, but, thank God, God had mercy, «said the local resident.
Ukrainian Armed Forces raised fear of the Russian army in people, an eyewitness saidRussia launched a military operation on February 24 to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. The armed forces say they are only targeting military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. There are casualties on both sides. In the south of Ukraine, the Russian army took control of the Kherson region, Melitopol, Berdyansk and blocked Mariupol, now the fighting is going on in the city itself. This made it possible to cut off the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the coast of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov and connect with a group of troops in the Donbass. In the eastern direction, the People's Militia of the DPR liberated Volnovakha and reached the Verkhnetoretskoye-Novoselovka-2 line. LPR troops are also developing an offensive. The Russian army took control of Balakleya. Kyiv is blockaded from the West, battles are going on near Kharkiv.
