Woman who lost husband and three children in Russian strike on Bohodukhiv killed in car crash in Kharkiv region. Her 7-month-old daughter is in hospital
Olha Krivohub was killed in a road accident in the Kharkiv region on October 13. She was the only member of her family to survive a Russian strike on Bohodukhiv on February 10, which killed her husband and three children. Olha was pregnant and later gave birth to a girl. The child is in intensive care following the crash.
Suspilne Kharkiv and Kharkiv regional police reported this, according to Censor.NET.
Details of the crash
According to police, the woman driving a Ford Focus lost control of the vehicle, veered onto the right-hand shoulder and hit a tree. She died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.
A 34-year-old male passenger was also in the car. He was taken to hospital unconscious.
Olha Krivohub’s seven-month-old daughter was also injured. The girl is in moderately serious condition: she was diagnosed with a fractured rib, a pulmonary contusion, and abrasions.
According to Oleksandr Yesin, head of the Nova Vodolaha community, the accident occurred on October 13 at around 5–6 p.m.
"She was driving from Nova Vodolaha towards Kharkiv. She had only just left Vodolaha, travelled about 300 metres and veered off the highway. She died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. The child was with her in the car. The girl was initially taken to Nova Vodolaha hospital to be stabilised, then transferred by an intensive care ambulance to Emergency Hospital No. 4," Yesin said.
According to the community head, two people have expressed a wish to take the child into their care: the deceased woman’s sister and the deceased father’s brother.
"Two people want to take the child into their care: the deceased woman’s sister and the deceased father’s brother. We are conducting checks on them," he said.
Viktor Kovalenko, head of the Zolochiv community, said that Olha moved from Bohodukhiv to Nova Vodolaha after her family was killed in February. With help from concerned members of the public and donors, she bought a house in Nova Vodolaha. Olha later bought the car in which she was involved in the accident on October 13.
Background
- On the night of February 10–11, Russian occupiers struck the home of a family with several children in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, with a Shahed drone.
- The attack killed three young children and an adult man.
- Olha’s 34-year-old husband, Hryhorii, was a veteran. He had defended Ukraine on the front line for about a year, fighting in the Kupiansk area and the Zaporizhzhia region, where he lost a leg.
- Myroslava, the girl who was killed, was one year old, while the twin boys, Ivanko and Vladyk, were two.
- Rescuers managed to pull the children’s mother, who was 35 weeks pregnant, from beneath the rubble and save her.
- A farewell ceremony for the fallen defender and his three children was held on February 13. They were buried in Skovorodynivka in the northern Kharkiv region.
