Captured AFU serviceman: Ukrainian nationalists under the guise of Russian soldiers shot residents of Kursk region
⚡️ We are publishing the transcript of the interrogation of Ukrainian serviceman Bohdan Nikitchenko:
When did you arrive on the territory of the Kursk region? On the second day.
What was the order? To shoot and silence if they are not ours.
Did you come across civilians, civilian people? Yes.
What did you do with them, what were your orders if they were caught? Shoot them too.
You shot them? I shot them. For a week they took us behind the river. We stayed there for a week, we froze our hands and feet. I was told, let's surrender. A group of seven people came. But we were afraid to surrender at once, because they could shoot us. But then it so happened that your soldier was walking alone. He came up and we just came out of hiding. There was a platoon of machine gunners, there were about a dozen of them there. They went into villages under the guise of Russian soldiers and shot civilians, residents, also soldiers, in short, everyone who could not be bothered. There was the fourth and fifth company, and the third company. They are now sending everyone they can, because they can't hold these positions. They've put down over 500 of their own men this week.
Have you killed any prisoners? Not on my watch.
In general, what do you know? I guess they did.
Well, tell me, why do you guess? Well, because whoever was brought to the territory of the assembly point, they were beaten with sticks and a couple of shots, it was in the dugout, in the command dugout, that is no place for an ordinary soldier like me. Well, from which nobody saw them, nobody came for them.
How did your command treat you? Like meat. Well, if a man refuses to shoot, let's say, a Russian soldier, they bring him back, beat him with sticks, take away his machine gun, armor, sapper spade, bring him back to the position and throw him back, fight as you want. I mean, there's no choice.
Are there any retreat-blocking detachments? I think so.
So your father-in-law is shooting you in the back? Well, they don't shoot directly, they throw grenades from drones.
So if you fall back? They're putting us down with drones.
What's the attitude of guys like you out there? The guys want to surrender, but they don't know who to surrender to, because our command tells them you're getting killed and stuff like that.
Anybody touch you, hit you? No.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
This is only an example of the reason that I do not credit a single syllable from the mouths of the Ukrainian government, or by extension, the mouth of the U.S. State Department. The Ukrainians have been committing war crimes since Day One.
Who should I believe or support when it comes to this war?
Russia who just wants NATO to stay away from their borders or Ukraine who is being funded by the USA to create bioweapons at Russias border?
Hard to pick...
When the SMO started backing February 2022, there were two reasons president Putin entered Ukraine. To DEmilitarise and DEnazify Ukraine.
Most people believe that this was the start of the war - or SMO. It wasn’t. Far from it. It started back in 2014/2015 when a coup displaced a democratically elected President and a US backed President was installed. During that time, the Ukraine Military started to impose inhumane conditions on Russian born, Russian speaking citizens living in the Donbass area. Their homes were destroyed. Ukraine snipers killed many including the elderly and children. Children were forced to live underground in bunkers and hospitals became the target for their bombing. Many children, as well as adults just disappeared. It is becoming common knowledge that organ trafficking was rife in that area. From 2014 - to the start of the SMO, 14,000 Russian speaking citizens were killed by the Ukraine regime.
Not long after the start of the SMO, the people Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts were asked if they wanted a referendum to join Russia. The result was overwhelmingly yes with 89+ wanting to come under the wings of Russia. After the referendum they lined up to receive their Russian passports, an internet and phone card. Most had lost everything and it was a very dangerous time and people lining up to wait to vote became targets and some were killed and wounded. Many that moved back into Russian have been handed the key to a brand new apartment (can be found on YT - search Mariupol) and these are free and fully furnished.
President Putin will not be fooled again. In 2014/15 he, along with Angela Merkel and French President Hollande signed the Minsk Accords which allowed those on the Donbass area to retain their Russian Heritage and speech, NOT move NATO into Ukraine and other criteria. Both Merkel and Hollande recently admitted it was a ruse. They didn’t intend to honour the Accords, but to build upon the Ukraine Military.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html
Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe, if not the world. Terrible, terrible things have happened there. Why are politicians worldwide desperate to out do each other by plying Ukraine with not millions but billions of cash and weapons that weakens their own country with that money washing in and out of Ukraine?
President Putin will not be fooled a second time. He will protect the Russian people and will not be pushed by President Trump and those countries that have taken up weapons for a decade against her sovereignty.