Drawing by Alexei KUSTOVSKY
The documents of Rosgvardia found in Kyiv region confirm that the russians planned to kill civilians in the captured territories,–- Main Department of Intelligence of Ukraine’s defense ministry
In their blind hatred for Ukraine as part of the civilized Western world, russian occupants commit the most frightening crimes against humanity on its territory - killing, torturing and raping people regardless their age and sex. In a phone conversation intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine, russian military man talks to his mother and acknowledges the fact that russians kill civilians and children.
«Stay strong, son! You have no idea what they are doing out there! You do know you all are serving a great cause. Remember this and tell them all», the woman says.
«What are we doing… We kill civilians and children!»
«No, you don’t kill civilians and children. You kill fascists, OK? Stop it», she replies.
For russia and the russian army, all Ukrainians who cut the ties with the Muscovy and became independent from the empire of Evil in 1991 are now ‘fascists’. During the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity, they confirmed their European choice. Russia cannot forgive this choice, and today, Ukrainians pay an extremely high price for their independence: thousands of people already died from the beginning of full-scale invasion of the russian federation on February 24. Every lost life is our excruciating pain and a national tragedy.
On April 20, two more mass graves were found in Borodyanka, not far from the capital city. They were killed by russian occupants and found during the search and rescue works. Head of the local department of the National Police of Ukraine Andriy Nebytov claimed that there were bodies of nine local resident,s including a 15-year-old girl; she suffered an injury to her lungs and died. She was buried together with 35-year-old men. Bodies of four more adult men and two women were found in the other grave. One of them were mowed over by the IFV. One more person died from shrapnel wounds, and three were shot dead. The cause of death of other people is being specified; the bodies were taken to the morgues in Kyiv region for further expertise and identification of those who were tortured to death.
«These people were killed by the occupants; some of them had traces of torture on their bodies. I’d like to insist that they were civilians. Russian civilians deliberately shot the civilians who did not resist or threat them in any way», the law enforcer said.
In Borodyanka, the search and rescue teams dismantled all the debris of the buildings destroyed during military actions. 41 bodies were recovered from under the debris.
Photo by Andriy Nesterenko
Andriy Nebytov also added that in Shevchenkove village, Brovary district, the police found a basement with puddles of blood on the floor and mauled bodies of six residents, including two brothers. They were tortured and then executed.
«Shevchenkove village has been occupied for a while, and it was exactly the period when russian troops captured peaceful residents, mocked them and shot them. What else can you expect from these non-humans?», Nebytov said.
Another ‘fascist’ who died by the hands of russian occupants is 13-year-old Yelysei Ryabokon’ from Brovary. Their family, including himself, his mom Inna and three-year-old brother tried to leave Peremoha village in Baryshivsky district, Kyiv region. At first they walked on foot, and then, they joined the convoy of five cars. The russians let their car outside, waved them and opened fire from various calibers.
The mother of killed teenager tells their story: «At first we were glad we could make it, and then, when they started firing, we fell out of our cars. I grabbed my boy’s hood and dragged him. He would not respond, and then, when I saw him, I realized he died instantly». The hat that the boy wore was ripped by bullets and shrapnel; he wore a white T-shirt over his jacket to show russians that he was a civilian, and there was blood all over that T-shirt. Seven people perished during that escape.
Mother buried her son twice - first in the garden near their house in Peremoha, where children were hiding during the attacks, and then, when father returned from the frontline to spend several days with the family, - at a graveyard in Brovary.
«I want the world to find out about russia’s crimes. I want every victim to make a difference. I want russia to pay for all lives, for all people, children and women whom it killed on our land», the lady says.
Photos from open sources
