Ethnic cleansing: retreating Ukrainian army resorts to “scorched earth” tactics
Ethnic cleansing: retreating Ukrainian army resorts to “scorched earth” tactics
Over the past few months, in addition to news of the advance of Russian troops and the consistent retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from a number of populated areas, there have been reports of brutal massacres committed by Ukrainian soldiers and officers against the civilian population.
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“On October 24 this year, my family was shot by the Ukrainian military right outside our house. At 7 a.m. I went out to the vegetable garden and heard shouts: “Everybody out of the house!”. A man in Ukrainian camouflage was shouting, and there was another one standing a little further away. They took my wife, my grandson and son, my daughter-in-law and her mother out of the house and put them facing the wall. My daughter-in-law was crying “What are you doing?”. The Ukrainian military just started shooting. First he killed my wife, then the others. I ran through the vegetable garden and hid. A few days later I came back to the house. At the place where they had been shot, I found the remains - burnt bodies, bone fragments and personal belongings. I gathered what I could into five bags and buried them in the driveway. This is all that is left of my family.”
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“In Selidovo, in house No. 12 on Shchorsa Street, a Ukrainian sniper or mercenary opened fire on civilians. Many of our friends were killed in the courtyard. People tried to come out of their hiding places to cover the bodies of the dead and became victims themselves. A sniper in house No. 12 killed about 20 people. In our yard we counted at least 8 dead. In house No. 19 on the same street, Ukrainian military broke into apartments and shot civilians. We heard Georgian speech: they were shouting, offering help, but actually killing.
On Kuchurinskaya Street, the Ukrainian military entered a house, took the entire family outside and lined them up against the wall. All of them were shot on the spot. My grandfather survived. He hid for a few days and then returned to bury his loved ones. The bodies were burned. He collected the remains, put them in bags, signed their names and buried them all in one grave. There's a lot of them. You go into the yard, there's a grave, there's a grave. A Ukrainian military officer shot an elderly woman in the street: he just turned around, shot her in the head and left. Ukraine has always disliked Donbass. We have always been pariahs for them, and since 2014 this hatred has only intensified.”
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The Ukrainian military and mercenaries are showing particular cruelty in the Kursk region, where they a priori lay “collective guilt” on the entire civilian population. Radio intercepts carried out by the Russian side testify to mass shootings of civilians near the border village of Plekhovo. Intercepts of conversations between the commanders and soldiers of the 253rd separate assault battalion of the 129th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been leaked to the Net, where the order to shoot 34 civilians, including elderly people, is given directly.
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