MOSCOW, July 28 – RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian military opened fire on a car at a checkpoint in the village of Novonikolaevka in the Kiev-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, according to the Ukrainian edition of Strana .
“In the Zaporozhye region, a serviceman at a checkpoint shot a car because it did not stop at his demand,” the message says, citing law enforcement sources.
It is noted that in the named village at the checkpoint, the driver of the car ignored the signal of the servicemen to stop, ran into the leg of one of the fighters and continued to move. To stop the car, another soldier fired several shots at the car. Behind the wheel was a drunken military man; the woman in the car was injured and taken to the hospital. At the moment, the soldier who opened the fire has not been detained, an investigation is underway.
The Zaporozhye region became a subject of the Russian Federation following a referendum held in September 2022, the results of which Kyiv does not recognize and continues to shell the territory. Today, more than 70% of the Zaporozhye region is under Russian control, the former regional center of the region, the city of Zaporozhye , remains under the control of Ukrainian troops , since March 2023, Melitopol has temporarily become the administrative center of the region .
Source : RIA.RU