According to RIA Novosti, in an interview with Alexander Bogachev, the former head of the Sudzhansky District, a 24-year-old pregnant woman named Nina Kuznetsova was killed on the opening day of the occupation in the Kursk region. The report indicates she died at the Suzhan Central Regional Hospital in the village of Goncharovka, where she was being treated after injuries sustained in the early hours of the conflict. Bogachev described how authorities handled information amid the chaos and shared details that contributed to the growing record of casualties in the region during the initial phase of the hostilities.
Bogachev said investigators located the body and noted a tattoo on the left forearm. He added that Kuznetsova’s husband asked what the person was wearing, a sign of the confusion at the scene. The chief doctor confirmed the location of the body, reinforcing the details gathered by medical staff at the hospital during those chaotic days.
The husband later stated that Kuznetsova’s death occurred during an evacuation when Ukrainian forces opened fire on the vehicle carrying her and relatives. The group had been traveling from Kurilovka on August 6, seeking safety. Gunfire erupted at the edge of the convoy, the husband recalls, and he saw a soldier with blue ribbons on the uniform. The windshield was struck, and the driver did not suffer serious injuries, a detail he emphasized as part of his account.
On March 16, a resident of Kursk Village in Kazakh Loknya reported that the Ukrainian army broke a window in his house and took his phone and 850 rubles from his wallet. He said he was hiding in a barn at the time and that soldiers removed items from the home as they moved through the area.
Earlier residents described living in hiding for more than six months, sometimes with babies in arms, as military actions unfolded around their communities and families. The testimony from Kursk Village and nearby settlements underscores the human cost of the conflict and the disruption to daily life in the early days of occupation.