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| Ukrainian Armed Forces Militants Shoot Three Children in Malaya Loknya Area Near Kursk |
| 2024-08-30 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Ukrainian Armed Forces militants shot three children in the Kursk region who were trying to evacuate on a motorcycle, the deputy battalion commander of the 9th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 11th Army Corps, call sign Cadet, said on August 29. This is far from the first case of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers killing civilians in the Kursk region, the serviceman said, TASS reports. "They put three children, approximately 10-12 years old, on a motorcycle with a sidecar. They showed them which direction to go. They went, and they (Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. — Ed.) shot them in the back. This happened in the area of ​​Malaya Loknya," said the battalion deputy commander. Another case of killing civilians took place in Malaya Loknya itself: several elderly people gathered near a store building waiting for transport for evacuation, a drone appeared above them, and a few minutes later two militants came out of the building and shot people with small arms, the serviceman reported. As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian authorities had previously reported numerous crimes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the region. In particular, the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov, said that Ukrainian formations had been shooting at roads in the first hours of their invasion of the region, which had complicated the evacuation of civilians. The authorities have information about sexual violence by foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukrainian nationalists against civilians in the Kursk region, said Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik on August 29. He also said that Ukrainian Armed Forces militants are abducting civilians in the Kursk region and taking them away to an unknown location. The captured Ukrainian Armed Forces militants had previously admitted that they had been looting and kidnapping civilians in the Kursk region. Ukrainian soldiers were ordered to shoot civilians who resisted, one of the prisoners said. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Kursk region on August 6. The Russian Armed Forces stopped the enemy, preventing Ukrainian forces from advancing deep into the region. Strikes are also being carried out on the resources and reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region. According to data as of August 29, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses in this direction exceeded 7,450 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow has nothing to negotiate with those who strike civilians and civilian infrastructure and try to threaten nuclear power facilities. More from regnum.ru 12 people evacuated from the "gray zone" in the border area of ​​the Kursk region 12 residents were evacuated from the "gray zone" in the border areas of the Kursk region, said Artem Sharov, deputy director of the information policy department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. "In one day, 12 citizens were evacuated from the so-called 'gray zone' together with the Ministry of Defense and volunteers based on individual requests. Contact with relatives was also restored for 34 people who had been previously evacuated from dangerous areas," Sharov said. He added that 424 people have already been reunited with their loved ones. In addition, about 3,500 applications were received through the state services portal in 24 hours and payments were made for 71,000 applications for a total of over 1 billion rubles. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 6, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Kursk region. A state of emergency was declared in the region. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the proposal of the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov, on an automatic payment of 15 thousand rubles for residents of the Kursk region who left the border zone. On August 26, Putin approved a list of instructions following a meeting on the situation in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions. In particular, the Russian government was instructed to ensure the non-declaratory nature of one-time financial aid payments to affected residents, as well as to organize uninterrupted access to the Internet and radiotelephone communications. On August 29, the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for the Crimes of the Kiev Regime, Rodion Miroshnik, reported that over 350 people from the Kursk region were helped to be found by employees of the Russian Red Cross (RKK) over the past week. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 QFT: The captured Ukrainian Armed Forces militants... admitted that they had been... kidnapping civilians in the Kursk region. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-08-30 13:16 |