KYIV (Reuters) – Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Synehubov revised the death toll from a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village in the east to two people on Saturday.
Synehubov initially said on the Telegram messaging app that four people were killed as a Russian anti-tank guided missile hit a car driving towards the village of Huriyv Kozachok which is near the border with Russia.
Later he gave provided an update, saying that two volunteers – a 42-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman were killed.
Ukraine liberated many villages and towns in the Kharkiv region last autumn but since then the Russian military has frequently shelled the area, destroying critical infrastructure and injuring and killing residents.
(Reporting by Olena Harmash, editing by Mark Heinrich and Louise Heavens)