Ukrainian intelligence reported that two Russian soldiers killed seven Ukrainian civilians in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, during the night of Dec. 20–21. According to the initiative I Want to Live, the soldiers broke into a basement where civilians were hiding, demanded alcohol, shot a father and son when none was provided, and then killed a family of four and another man inside the shelter, setting the building on fire.
One witness survived by pretending to be dead, while the soldiers later falsely claimed to a Russian commander that they had eliminated a Ukrainian military reconnaissance group. The two soldiers were detained on December 23 by Ukraine’s 159th Military Commandant’s Office.
In this handout photograph a view of the frontline city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Iryna Rybakova / Press service of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces / AFP)
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