Page 9 - UKRAINE CONFLICT: MILITARY CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (2022-2023)

Testimony 7
Michael Alexandrovich Reznik. Place of
residence at the time of the survey — Mariupol

“I decided to visit my father in the
basement and get some food at the
Metallurgov Avenue. On 19 March I drove
into my courtyard and parked my car
near my neighbouring house. As soon as I
turned off the engine, machine gun started.
My car was shot, all windows went out and
something got into my chest. I jumped out
through my neighbour’s car passenger door
into the street, raised my hands and began shouting ‘Do not shoot,
peaceful people here’. At this time the bullet hit me and caught my hip
bone. God bless, my father and neighbours saw me. They pulled me
into the basement and I stayed there for the following six days”.

Testimony 8
Vera (39 years old). Place of residence at the time of the survey —
countryside near Artyomovsk
“The attacks and shootings were terrible. Ukrainian snipers and
mortars were used to shoot at us. Russian fighters carried children
wearing body armoured vests in their arms. They were running to
save those children. When we ran down into the basement we started
hugging and crying, because were very happy that we survived and
because we are the only ones who know those moral and physical
abuse which we suffered from that punitive detachment. Our hands
were shaking. We are local, so everybody had their own horror story.
In every family there were their own heroes, those guys who said: ‘Do
not be afraid, get out. We came to save you, we are Russian’. We began
crying with joy, because before that we were in such a despair as we
thought that we would not stay alive.
Ukrainians told us: ‘You did not evacuate and we have a command
not to leave here anybody’. When we requested to evacuate children,
they answered that there were neither children nor people there. It was

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