A lot of nasty stuff going on recently in Kozacha Lopan, my in-laws village. Most of my wife's family left last year when an evacuation corridor opened up. But her uncle and his wife stayed behind, as the wife is a military nurse and is required to stay. Uncle refuses to go without her, so he stayed behind as well. The village still comes under attack on occassion, although the UA does actually have soldiers now who fire back onto Russian positions across the border.
Woke up this morning to news of this attack yesterday:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato...cha-lopan.html
Interesting bit is this part here:
Quote:
On Tuesday, around 06:00 a.m., the enemy shelled Kozacha Lopan. A detached house was hit and caught fire.
“As the fire was extinguished, rescuers discovered the body of a civilian man, 29,” Syniehubov wrote.
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Apparently it was my wife's uncle who came across this house and found the occupants all dead. We found the actual address on the village's Telegram channel and he confirmed he was the first arrival who notified authorites. The news statement says only 1 casualty occurred, but that's incorrect. He found at least 4 bodies inside, including my wife's classmate that is her age. RIP Sveta and family. The village is now under a mandatory evacuation order towards Dergachi, since fighting is picking up in Kharkiv Oblast along that area of the border. Uncle and wife are refusing to go, so much of my MIL and her sister's day is spent trying to convince him to go. We have all offered to help them them financially so they will have somewhere to stay, but they are stubborn AF and still refuse to go.
I suspect that when the opportunity arises or the war finishes, that there will be a massive DMZ-style buffer zone of mines and other deterrents, and Kozacha Lopan will exist no longer due to being 2km from the border. Just way too much stuff going on that close and the russians still refuse to piss off, shooting those villages with no military objective in mind other than being sacks of cancerous #### who refuse to go away.