Trip of 15-year-old girl "on a visit" to "LNR" militants ends with "gunshot wound" to neck and spinal injury

The "LNR" militants have caused debilitating injury to a 15-year-old girl who had come to "visit" them in one of the illegal armed formations. This is said in the report of the OSCE SMM on 17 May.

The state of emergency happened on April 18, 2021, but the occupation authorities did not report it.

"A girl (aged 15) was injured due to gunfire in Voznesenivka (formerly Chervonopartyzansk, non-government-controlled, 65km south-east of Luhansk)", - the OSCE SMM report says.

The monitors report says that on 27 April, medical staff at a hospital in Dovzhansk (formerly Sverdlovsk) told the SMM that on 18 April, a girl (aged 15) had been hospitalised with a gunshot wound to her neck and a spinal injury. She was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Luhansk city (non-government-controlled).

The father of the injured child also told about the tragic event.

"On 14 May, in Voznesenivka, a man (in his thirties), who introduced himself as the father of the injured girl, told the Mission that on 18 April, his daughter and some of her friends had been visiting an acquaintance at a military-type compound in Voznesenivka. He said that a shot had been fired and had wounded the girl, who was subsequently hospitalised", - the OSCE SMM observers reported.