On the morning of April 30, police in Kharkiv detained a naked woman on Poltavsky Shlyakh Street. According to the press service of the National Police Main Department in Kharkiv Region, she had a knife in one hand and a bag containing a severed female head in the other — the bag.
The woman, who was in an inadequate state, refused to explain anything to police. She was taken to the Kholodnohirsk police station to establish the circumstances.
At 8:25, police received a report via the "102" emergency service from a 40-year-old resident of the village of Podvirky, who said he had found the beheaded body of his 13-year-old niece in the next room.
An investigative and operational team from the Derhachi police department has already been dispatched to his home, where he lives with his 38-year-old sister and her daughter.