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out and said: ‘What are you doing? There are peaceful people living
here, women, children and old people’. After that I heard a few shots.
Two shots at the house and the last one at the head. Azov fighters
are distinguished by aggressiveness, equipment and weapons. Before
shooting at the man the fighter asked: ‘Do you live here?’ The man
said, yes, I live here. The fighter killed him and said: ‘Now live here’.
He kicked him with his foot and left. Here the man is buried. His
name is Igor Kozyrev. Azov fighter killed him, it was the beginning of
March, the first part of March. We celebrated International Women’s
Day in the basement”.

Testimony 6
Vladimir Leonidovich Polyakov (72 years old).
Place of residence at the time of the survey —
Artyomovsk

“On 7 March 2023 the guys from the
PMC Russian fighters evacuated me.
On 9 March they came again and took us
under their wing and guarded us so that
those bastards would not kill us. When we
were leaving, my granddaughter’s husband
went first, my great grandson Dan’ka,
8 years old, and my granddaughter with
a baby Svyatoslav who was 7 months old in her arms followed.
A Ukrainian sniper targeted us with a heavy machine gun. From
the village he could see us as if on his palm. His bullet touched my
granddaughter’s hair. So finally, we left only at 10 o’clock at night
when it was dark, when those monsters from the AFU calmed down
a little bit.
They blew up the dam and everything they could blow up. Nothing
live is left after them. They would come into the basements and throw
grenades. Even fascists did not do such things. They knew that there
were people in the basements, but still threw grenades and shot at the
people. They did it because we were, as they called us ‘waiting’, those
who were waiting for when Russians will come. This is how they dealt
with us”.

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