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Horrifying video footage has emerged, showing the moment an elderly woman was gunned down by Russian troops in Ukraine.
The wheel-chair bound woman is seen slumping over in the town of Vovchansk, and has been verified by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office..
The woman had been trying to evacuate with her husband, when Russian troops, who set up an ambush by the road, open fire and killed her.
The woman’s husband told police: ‘I bent down and heard a burst of machine gunfire, coming from the side of the five storey building. How could I know they were there?’
An investigator asks him: ‘Who are you talking about?’
‘The Russians,’ the man replied. ‘I immediately screamed “What are you doing? We’re civilians!” I turn around and this guy is lying with his eyes open, and my wife- I look at her and there’s such a hole in the back of her head, and you can see her brains.’
The woman was seen slumped over in her wheelchair (Picture: YouTube)
War crimes prosecutors have spoken to the woman’s husband (Picture: YouTube)
Vovchansk has been evacuated as forces move in (Picture: EPA)
While fleeing, the woman’s husband said another civilian jumped out of a nearby building to escape gunfire.
Vovchansk is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, which has come under intense fire from Russian forces in recent months.
Last week, the Russian Ministry of Defence has announced the capture of a key village as the Kremlin makes a major push into Ukraine.
Officials said they had seized Starytsia, in the northeast Kharkiv region, as Moscow pushes on with its most recent offensive, with the apparent goal of capturing Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
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The latest push, which opens up a new front in the conflict, was launched early on the morning of May 10.
Analysts have warned the move will likely signal the start of a broader push into the contested Donetsk region in the south, as part of an effort to pressure Kyiv’s already stretched defences.
In an interview with AFP earlier today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in the Kharkiv region is under control but not ‘stabilised’.
He added that Russian soldiers have penetrated between five and ten kilometres along the northeast border of the country, but are currently being held at bay by Ukrainian forces.
He said: ‘We have to be sober and understand that they are going deeper into our territory. Not vice versa. And that’s still their advantage.’
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