Page 4 - UKRAINE CONFLICT: MILITARY CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (2022-2023)

We were evacuated on 10 March
2023. In the morning of that day we
went down to the basement. Later we
heard that Russians were outside. We
shouted that there were women and
children there in the basement. The
Russians heard us. I opened the door of
the basement and two Russians came in.
They started taking us outside.
When Ukrainian snipers started
targeting us, it was really horrible.
There was a case in the town Opytnoye. Ukrainian aircraft levelled
the three-storied building and killed six or seven people who were in
the basement. People tried to dig them out.
Later Ukrainian snipers started shooting at those who were sorting
out rubble with people. Snipers shot at one man, he was taken to the
hospital, but still died.
My schoolmate in town Budyonovka was also shot by a Ukrainian
sniper. He wanted to cross the street.
On 15 March 2023 my other schoolmate arrived and told me that
Romka Turov was killed. He came out in the street and wanted to run
from one house to another, but the bullet hit him. In about two hours
they came up to him, but he was already dead. They covered him with
a blanket.
Another family is the Scheglovs. His godfather’s father was shot
in his arm by the sniper. When they moved to another basement,
his godfather’s father went to check what happened to his house
where Ukrainian fighters moved in. When he got to the house he
felt a sharp pain in his arm. The Ukrainian sniper shot him in his
right arm. It was in the middle of February. His name was Viktor
Michailovich Scheglov, he was about 60 years old. Soon after that
his house was burned.
When the Russians took us out of the basement, a nearby sniper was
shooting at us. Later we realised that he was shooting from the kinder-
garten where he climbed up through the chimney. Then a drone

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