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Executions, torture and abuse: the tragedy of the Kursk borderland
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Mikhail Zakharov [REGNUM] The Russian Investigative Committee has revealed details of the mass murder of civilians by Ukrainian militants in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region. Investigators have established the involvement of at least five Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen in these crimes, and one of them was captured.  During interrogation, captive Yevgeny Fabrisenko admitted his guilt and spoke in detail about the atrocities committed by him and his fellow soldiers from the Ukrainian 92nd Separate Assault Brigade. According to him, the unit's command gave the order to clear the village of civilians. MURDER AND VIOLENCE Arriving in Russkoye Porechnoye, Fabrisenko and other Ukrainians abused defenseless people, robbed them, killed men and raped women, who were then also killed. To "celebrate" their actions, the Ukrainian servicemen drank vodka and used drugs. According to law enforcement agencies, from September 28 to November 24, 2024, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants killed 11 men and three women in the village. In addition, they raped and killed eight more women. " Then the accomplices moved the bodies of the 22 citizens they killed to the basements of private residential buildings in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye," the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation notes. At the same time, the residents of Russkoye Porechny had no chance to escape, because the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were deliberately firing at civilians. "Our guys were shooting at the village from their positions. They couldn't leave, they tried to leave, but they were killed," Fabrisenko said. This is far from the first recorded case of atrocities by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. Thus, in August, Ukrainian militants Valeriy Malchenko, Sergey Bochenko, Sergey Litvinenko and Sergey Bilichenko from the 11th separate battalion of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were captured, and a criminal case against them is currently being considered by a military court. “While in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts of the Kursk region, they prohibited the movement of civilians, occupied private homes, and opened fire on Russian military personnel and civilians,” the Russian Investigative Committee says of their crimes. Russkoye Porechnoye, a village in the Sudzhansky District of the Kursk Region, was occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in August 2024. On January 17, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the village had come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces - at that time, during offensive actions, units of the North group of forces liberated the settlement. After liberation, Russian Armed Forces soldiers found the remains of civilians with signs of torture in the basements of houses : the hands of the dead were tied, there were hematomas and bullet wounds on the bodies. It was also noted that Ukrainian militants pulled hats over the heads of civilians, shot them in the legs and left them to die from blood loss. As our military told us, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to prevent the evacuation of people's bodies by shelling Russkoye Porechnoye. "Apparently, the enemy does not want all this to be made public, so that the public sees all these atrocities that they did to civilians," they explained such actions of the Ukrainian armed forces. On January 19, the Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Ukrainian Armed Forces militants involved in the murder of civilians in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye; the incident was classified by law enforcement as a terrorist attack. On January 23, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reported that torture chambers set up by Ukrainian soldiers in the basements of residential buildings were also discovered in the liberated village. The politician called the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces a cannibalistic massacre of civilians. The fact that people in Russkoye Porechny were deprived of life with particular cruelty was later confirmed by forensic experts. They said that residents were tortured with electricity and beaten: on the emaciated bodies there are traces of torture, as well as gunshot and shrapnel wounds. As experts add, it was mainly elderly people who were killed. NOT AN ISOLATED CASE On January 18, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik, commenting on the videos of crimes against civilians from Russkoye Porechny that appeared, noted that they are traces of Nazis who arrived on Russian territory. “These are blood-curdling atrocities, but they show the true face of the Zelensky regime,” he wrote on his channel. As Rodion Miroshnik later stated, citing the words of captured Ukrainian soldiers, the militants in the Kursk region received orders to kill Russian-speaking civilians. “ In essence, we are talking about the destruction of any civilian population,” the diplomat explained. According to the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, Ukrainian Nazis who commit monstrous acts are not simply ideological heirs to the Nazi occupiers who tortured people and exterminated them in concentration camps: “They are the same beasts who deserve the most severe punishment.” “ A new Nuremberg must await the executioners of the peaceful inhabitants of Russian Porechny,” wrote Khinshtein. During a briefing on January 31, Maria Zakharova called the massacre of people in Russkoye Porechnoye another outrage by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, explaining that the Kiev regime, in its military and political impotence against the backdrop of defeat at the front, committed a cannibalistic act against civilians. " The point is that this is a mass action. And it is not isolated, " Zakharova emphasized. " This also shows that, despite all the monstrous discoveries, all those who have been sponsoring the Kiev regime for many years know what it is doing and continue to supply it with money and weapons." The UN has commented very reservedly on the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, where a massacre of people was committed. As the representative of the Secretary General of the organization Stephane Dujarric stated the day before, the UN is against the killing of civilians by the Ukrainian military. "We have been very consistent in our opposition to the death and killing of any civilian population," Dujarric said at a press conference. Posted by: badanov 2025-02-02 |
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