{"id":1360605,"date":"2026-02-20T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-russian-drone-attacked-an-evacuation-unit-in-the-kharkiv-region-killing-two-police-officers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:27:34","slug":"a-russian-drone-attacked-an-evacuation-unit-in-the-kharkiv-region-killing-two-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-russian-drone-attacked-an-evacuation-unit-in-the-kharkiv-region-killing-two-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Russian drone attacked an evacuation unit in the Kharkiv region, killing two police officers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"315\"><strong>In <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the Kharkiv region,<\/span><\/span> a Russian drone attacked the White Angels evacuation unit in the Kupyansk district. Two law enforcement officers were killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"315\"> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The National Police of Ukraine<\/span><\/span> reported this on February 20.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"317\" data-end=\"486\"> According to the department, police officers were dispatched to evacuate civilians. Near the village of Sredniy Burluk, their armored vehicle was hit by a Lancet-type drone.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"613\"> The attack killed police officers Yulia Keleberda and Yevgeny Kalgan. Another law enforcement officer was injured.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"789\"> The National Police reported that Yulia was 23 years old and survived by her parents. Yevhen was 39 years old. His wife, mother, 16-year-old son, and 7-year-old daughter were left without a husband and father.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"860\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Law enforcement officials expressed deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"860\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1360592\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Znimok-ekrana-2026-02-20-o-16.17.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Znimok-ekrana-2026-02-20-o-16.17.35.png 1006w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Znimok-ekrana-2026-02-20-o-16.17.35-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Znimok-ekrana-2026-02-20-o-16.17.35-768x470.png 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Znimok-ekrana-2026-02-20-o-16.17.35-650x398.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Since the evening of Thursday, February 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-atakuvala-ukrainu-mayzhe-130-dronamy-ta-balistychnoiu-raketoiu-skilky-zbyla-ppo\/\">Russian occupation forces have attacked Ukraine with Iskander-M ballistic<\/a> missiles and 128 drones. Air defense forces managed to neutralize 107 of them.<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kharkiv region, a Russian drone attacked the White Angels evacuation unit in the Kupyansk district. Two law enforcement officers were killed. The National Police of Ukraine reported this on February 20. According to the department, police officers were dispatched to evacuate civilians. Near the village of Sredniy Burluk, their armored vehicle was hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1360589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1360605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360605","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}