Ukrainian Armed Forces prevented the evacuation of bodies of brutally murdered residents of a Kursk village
[Regnum] Ukrainian servicemen fired mortars at Russian fighters during the evacuation of brutally murdered civilians from the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region. This was reported by the chief of staff of the motorized rifle unit of the North group of forces with the call sign Vostok.
"On January 24, the first woman was pulled out. After that, mortar and cluster munitions shelling began. A 120mm mortar fired at us, there were about 40
(rounds fired)
, two mortars were used. And cluster munitions, as well as FPV drones," he explained to journalists.
According to the Russian military man, the enemy is probably afraid of publicity for all the atrocities they committed against civilians.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 31, the representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric commented on the atrocities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk village of Russkoye Porechnoye. He emphasized that the world organization is against the death and murder of any civilian population.
Civilians in the temporarily occupied territories must be protected from torture and murder by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in accordance with international law, stressed Fatima Sator, official representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Civilians in the hands of enemy forces must be treated humanely under all circumstances, she added.
The Russian Investigative Committee has established the involvement of five Ukrainian servicemen in the murder of 22 civilians in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, liberated by the Russian Armed Forces. According to the agency, from September 28 to November 24, 2024, the suspects killed 11 men and three women, and also raped and killed eight more women. They then moved the bodies to the basements of private homes.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces Militants Tortured Elderly People in Kursk Village Before Murder
The civilians killed by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk Region had their ankles shot, and one man had his skull smashed. This was told to journalists by the chief of staff of the motorized rifle unit of the North group of forces with the call sign Vostok.
According to the officer, after entering the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, Russian soldiers checked the basements of houses, believing that Ukrainian militants could be hiding there.
Bodies of local residents were found in three basements.
Vostok reported that two bodies were found in one shelter: a woman had three penetrating gunshot wounds to the chest, and a man had also been shot at point-blank range.
"In the second basement we found the bodies of three men and two women, their ankles were shot. The dead were elderly - somewhere over 60 years old. It is clear that they were also shot in the chest. One had three shots in the back of the head, the skull was destroyed," the soldier explained.
In the third basement lay the bodies of two men with bullet wounds; they were pelted with grenades so that the bodies would be unrecognizable, Vostok added.
His colleague with the call sign Lord was one of the first to enter the village and found the dead in the basements. According to him, the militants beat the civilians before killing them - hematomas testify to this. Six people, the fighter assumed, were killed in their sleep.
As reported by IA Regnum, bodies of civilians with their hands tied were found in the basements of houses in Russkoye Porechnoye. According to one of the soldiers, the people were tortured, and there were traces of bullet wounds on each of the bodies. Probably, the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers finished off the wounded.
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Ukrainian soldier on the order to liquidate all residents of Russkoye Porechny
The Ukrainian command gave the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), who invaded the territory of the Kursk region, an order to eliminate the civilian population in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Sudzhansky district. This was reported on January 31 by captured Ukrainian serviceman Yevgeny Fabrisenko.
He clarified that the company commander ordered the settlement to be cleared of civilians.
The soldier added that civilians were shot in their own homes.
“We entered the village and cleared out houses, we didn’t storm it, we saw and shot,” RIA Novosti quoted Fabricenko as saying.
According to him, the group leader ordered them to take out the old people, tie them up and beat them, and then they killed one elderly couple with a grenade.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Russian Investigative Committee has established the involvement of five Ukrainian servicemen from the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade in the murder of 22 civilians in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye. Among the suspects are Fabrisenko, the commander of the 11th company of the fourth battalion with the call sign Kum, and three servicemen with the call signs Motyl, Provodnik, and Khudozhnik.