{"id":1280707,"date":"2025-08-15T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/two-police-officers-killed-in-svyatogorsk-donetsk-region-due-to-russian-shelling\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:53:14","slug":"two-police-officers-killed-in-svyatogorsk-donetsk-region-due-to-russian-shelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/two-police-officers-killed-in-svyatogorsk-donetsk-region-due-to-russian-shelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers killed in Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, due to Russian shelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, while on duty, police captain Roman Penkov and senior police sergeant Valentin Gavrish were killed as a result of Russian shelling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsHeading\">\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/don.gunp\/posts\/1061777779442230?ref=embed_post\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Donetsk region police.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The car in which the law enforcement officers were traveling came under enemy fire. Senior district officer of police department No. 4 (Slovyansk) of Kramatorsk RUP Roman Penkov and police driver of the local police security unit Valentin Gavrish were fatally wounded,&#8221; the statement said. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdon.gunp%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02zoANfSJhcfZPCUNiywNXxg2DHWCbdxUGD9MFZhDL4KFWVRSNcrSdSUFoGAXpz1yil&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"582\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Penkov is originally from Raigorodok in the Kramatorsk district. &#8220;As a district police officer, he knew every inch of his native territory and was the first to come to the aid of people,&#8221; the statement says.<\/p>\n<p> The policeman is survived by his parents, wife and seven-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p> Valentin Gavrish was born in Novoselovka, Limansky district. He joined the National Police in 2019. Since September 2021, he worked as a police driver in the response platoon of the Sloviansk city department of the Mariupol interdistrict department of the Security Police Department in Donetsk region.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;He was a loving son, brother and husband,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, while on duty, police captain Roman Penkov and senior police sergeant Valentin Gavrish were killed as a result of Russian shelling. This was reported by the Donetsk region police. &#8220;The car in which the law enforcement officers were traveling came under enemy fire. Senior district officer of police department No. 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":426379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1280707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}