Crash in Kharkiv: Teen Driver Had Previously Been Caught by Police, Father Claims Son Is “Innocent”, Victim’s Daughter Requests Legal Aid

The teenager’s girlfriend, who was also in the car, is asking people for money for treatment.

On the evening of October 26, a fatal crash involving a 16-year-old teenager driving an Infinity car occurred on Odeska Street in Kharkiv.

Driving at high speed, he ran a red light at an intersection and crashed into a Chevrolet, whose 58-year-old driver died on the spot.

We explain what is currently known about the teenager’s identity, what crimes he had committed previously, how his father claims the son is “innocent”, and how the injured girl asked for money for treatment.

Who is behind the crash

The father of 16-year-old Nikolai Kharkivsky, who is accused of causing the fatal crash while driving an Infiniti in Kharkiv, claims his son is not guilty and that he is being “made into a criminal”.

Three other passengers, including a 16-year-old girl, were in the car with Nikolai Kharkivsky. All of them are in hospital with injuries of varying severity.

Local media managed to speak with Nikolai’s father, Mikhail Kharkivsky. He is not sure that his son was driving the car and calls everything that is happening a “planned action”.

Mikhail Kharkivsky

All the information being spread in the information space is aimed at making Kolya a criminal. There were three more people in the car, and one of them was driving. Nobody wanted to charge him or look for him. My son did not go anywhere from the scene. It may be Nikolai, or it may not be Nikolai who was driving. Right now emotions are overwhelming me, I in no way justify anyone, a terrible crime has been committed, a man is dead. Doesn’t anything suggest that this is all a planned action? His head is smashed, with a terrible hole in it.

Kharkivsky declined to answer the question of who owns the luxury car. But he knows that immediately after the crash a report of car theft was filed with police. He does not know by whom. Nikolai’s father also did not answer whether he saw his son after the crash.

Head of the organization “Hunters-Kharkiv” Stanislav Zhadan in his Instagram said that the parents of Nikolai Kharkivsky are trying to bribe the passengers of the Infiniti so that they take the blame for the man’s death.

According to the activist, they contacted the sister of one of the guys who was in the Infiniti at the time of the fatal crash. The girl said that the parents of 16-year-old Nikolai Kharkivsky are offering large sums of money for one of the passengers to take the blame instead of the driver responsible for the crash.

Previous crimes

A preventive measure for the 16-year-old driver will be decided today, October 28. As the investigation reported, the teenager already has a “criminal past”.

Oleksandr Umnikov
head of the investigation department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kharkiv Region 

Detention, which both the investigation and the prosecutor’s office will insist on... In July, the Chervonozavodskyi District Court of Kharkiv found the teenager guilty of intentionally inflicting moderate bodily injuries and sentenced him to a suspended term.

The verdict of the Chervonozavodskyi District Court of Kharkiv dated July 5, 2021, published on the Unified State Register of court decisions, states that the teenager was found guilty of shooting a pneumatic weapon in the Tavria V supermarket in November 2019, as a result of which a mother and son received moderate bodily injuries.

The court sentenced the defendant to 2 years of imprisonment and released him from serving the sentence with a probationary period of 1 year.

According to a police representative, in September of this year, administrative offense reports were also drawn up against the teenager (driving a car without a driver’s license and exceeding the permitted speed), which are to be considered by the court on November 9.

Umnikov said that the car involved in the crash is registered to the teenager’s mother, and shortly after the crash a telephone report of the theft of this car was received by police.

The teenager’s girlfriend asked people for money for treatment

After the crash, the teenager’s girlfriend, 16-year-old Yelizaveta Dusyk, underwent abdominal surgery, and today she will be transferred to another hospital for a new surgical procedure.

On her Instagram she asked for money for expensive treatment, but after media resonance she deleted the posts and closed the account. She reported that she is in hospital with a fractured bone and needs surgery so she can walk normally.

According to her, on Tuesday, October 26, she had already undergone one abdominal surgery, and on Thursday she is being transferred to another medical facility for a new surgical procedure.

“I have never asked for help, but the situation turned out this way. Right now I am in hospital with a fractured bone and I need surgery to be able to walk normally. One abdominal surgery already took place yesterday, tomorrow they will take me to Saltivka and there will already be surgery on my leg. To whoever it is not difficult, whoever can give as much as they can, I ask,” said the injured woman, publishing her bank card details.

Appeal from the dead man’s daughter

The daughter of the 58-year-old Chevrolet driver who died in the Kharkiv crash, Anastasia Nosova, appealed to caring people for help in finding a good lawyer and witnesses to the crash.

Anastasia Nosova
daughter of the man killed in the crash

We are looking for an experienced lawyer who can be with us in this situation, and people who yesterday ran after the perpetrator of the crash and detained him. I ask you to come forward. Don’t be afraid. Being afraid is not the thing. What is frightening is living afterwards with what you do not do now.

She added that on October 27 she and her brother are near the morgue where their father lies, although this day had been planned in their family as a “very joyful date, very long-awaited by Dad, first of all as the father of his children”.

According to Nosova, her father lies in the morgue “only because a 16-year-old guy decided to give his friends a ride, a 16-year-old guy who feels his impunity”.

The law firm “Miller” said it is ready to help the family of the deceased.

Masi Naiem
founder of the Miller company

We are ready to provide legal services to the daughter of the driver of the red Aveo. He died yesterday in the crash in Kharkiv. We will help restore justice.