PO: Missile that hit Izium was launched from Rostov region

This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office in Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

“It was quickly established that the Iskander-M ballistic missile that hit the center of Izium on February 4 was launched from the territory of a military training ground in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation. Law enforcers are taking all measures to identify the highest military and political commanders who ordered the missile strike and the direct perpetrators of this crime. The investigation is ongoing,” said Spartak Borysenko, Head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Regional Prosecutor's Office.

As reported by Ukrinform, around 11:40 a.m. on February 4, the Russian army struck the central part of the city of Izium in Kharkiv region with an Iskander ballistic missile, killing five people, including a pregnant woman.

57 people were injured, 24 of them hospitalized. As of the morning of February 5, five people were hospitalized, two of them in serious condition, including a 14-year-old girl. Later it became known that a 61-year-old man died of his injuries.