In the Kharkiv region, an unidentified person shot dead five Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen. According to the investigation, this happened on October 13, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports, as UNN conveys.
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According to law enforcement officials, the man opened fire on servicemen who were in a residential building. All five died from their injuries.
On October 14, under the procedural guidance of the Kharkiv District Prosecutor's Office of the Kharkiv region, a pre-trial investigation was launched into the intentional murder of two or more persons (Paragraph 1, Part 2, Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)
The article provides for imprisonment for a term of 10 to 15 years or life imprisonment.
At the same time, the press service of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporizhians reported that the deceased were servicemen of this unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They also added that persons who are presumably citizens of the Russian Federation may be involved in the crime.