Overnight drone strikes: two elderly people killed in Korotych, Kharkiv region, university building damaged in Kremenchuk
Place: Korotych, Kharkiv region — KremenchukRegion: Kharkiv and Kharkiv regionautomatic summary
Where the versions diverge
Russian sources in the selection do not cover these strikes. The figures for those killed in Korotych agree, but DW calls 11 people injured, while the regional governor, Ukrainska Pravda and the Kyiv Independent speak of acute stress reactions. Accounts of the injured in Kremenchuk differ: the emergency service reports two injured and a hospitalised 16-year-old, the regional governor two injured, the university rector no one hurt.
What Russia reports
no reports found
What Ukraine reports
automatic summary Ukrainska Pravda, citing Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, reports that on the night of 21 October Russian drones attacked the village of Korotych in Kharkiv district: an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man were killed, another 11 people, among them a 2-month-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, suffered acute stress reactions, and 13 private houses were damaged. In Kremenchuk a drone hit an academic building of Kremenchuk National University: according to the emergency service, two people were injured and a 16-year-old girl was hospitalised, while the Poltava regional governor speaks of two injured. Rector Denys Zahirniak told Suspilne that no one was hurt in the Geran strike, only the doorkeeper was badly frightened.
“Внаслідок атаки загинули 81-річна жінка та 83-річний чоловік”
“Також постраждала 16-річна дитина, яку госпіталізували”
“пощастило нам, тому що ніхто не постраждав, лише дуже сильно злякалася вахтерка”
- На Харківщині російські дрони вбили двох літніх людей, також постраждали діти — Ukrainska Pravda, 21 October, 05:15
- Росіяни вдарили по університету в Кременчуці: серед постраждалих – підліток — Ukrainska Pravda, 21 October, 06:56
- Яких пошкоджень зазнав Кременчуцький університет через удар російської «Герані» — Suspilne, 21 October, 16:10
What independent sources report
automatic summary The Kyiv Independent, citing Syniehubov, writes about two elderly residents of Korotych killed and 11 people with acute stress reactions, and about a drone hitting a university building in Kremenchuk late on 20 October: a fire, two injured, including a 16-year-old hospitalised with a concussion. DW, in its round-up of the overnight attack, writes that in Korotych "another 11 people were injured, including two children", without specifying that these were stress reactions.
“An 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man were killed when Russian drones attacked the village of Korotych”
“погибли двое пожилых людей и пострадали еще 11 человек, в том числе двое детей”
- Russian drones kill 2 in Kharkiv Oblast, strike university building in Kremenchuk — Kyiv Independent, 21 October, 05:23
- Россия атаковала Украину: погибшие под Харьковом и в Киеве — DW (RU), 21 October, 07:51
Confirmation
Confirmation: confirmed by independent sources
The event is reported by international or exile independent outlets and no contradictions in the facts between the groups were detected. This does not mean the independent outlets verified every detail.
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