Five servicemen of Ukraine’s 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians were killed in a shooting in the Kharkiv region on October 13.

Axar.az reports, citing Ukrainian media, that according to Viktoria Ponomareva, head of the media content department and a police lieutenant colonel, an unidentified person opened fire with an automatic weapon, killing five servicemen.

The incident has been entered into Ukraine’s Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations under Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code, which concerns murder.

Law enforcement officers are currently working to identify the person involved in the crime. The 72nd Brigade has confirmed that the victims were its servicemen.