“According to the prosecutor’s office, this became known from a woman who was hiding with several dead people in the basement”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to her, on October 20, the couple and their adult son hid in the basement of a private house, while their younger son went to the neighbors to fetch water. Soon, Russian servicemen broke into the storage room and began questioning the whereabouts of Ukrainian soldiers in the settlement.
“Not receiving any information from them, they later left. However, one of the occupiers returned and opened fire with an automatic weapon on the civilians, after which, deciding that they were dead, he left. When the 57-year-old victim regained consciousness, she saw her relatives killed. Taking care of her younger son, the mother went to the nearby basement, where she found his body next to the shot neighbors – a 62-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son,” the message reads.
The prosecutor’s office adds that the victim with a gunshot wound to the jaw was able to reach the territory controlled by Ukraine, from where she was taken to the hospital. Prosecutors interrogated her and recorded testimony of yet another war crime against the civilian population.
Law enforcement officers have started a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings for the commission of a war crime that caused the death of people (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, as of October 8, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, 191,763 crimes of aggression and war crimes by Russian forces have been registered.