MOSCOW: The report of the International Public Tribunal has accused Ukrainian forces of committing atrocities and gross human rights violations in Russia’s Kursk region.
The report titled “Atrocities of the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime in the Kursk region” presents first-hand direct testimony from victims of Ukrainian war crimes.
It adds the Ukrainian armed forces shot civilians, including women, children and the elderly, both in their own homes and while attempting to evacuate them in civilian vehicles, with a full understanding of the non-military status of the victims in the Kursk region.
According to survivors, sometimes Ukrainian soldiers were looking them directly in the face while committing such crimes.
The report says the words of the victims are direct accusations of the Ukrainian regime, who, with the support of Western countries, systematically and purposefully killed Russian citizens with small arms, unmanned aerial vehicles (both kamikaze UAVs and the dropping of grenades and various explosive devices from them are used), by shelling peaceful private homes with artillery and multiple rocket launchers.
It notes that, a 75-year-old resident of the village of Kazachya Loknya Galina Samborskaya, described how a Ukrainian armed forces serviceman shot at their car and the car of her friends. She was clear that he shot at the first car and killed a woman there. Galina Samborskaya was shot in the thigh by a Ukrainian armed forces serviceman. She said that she had a very deep wound.
Artem Kuznetsov, a resident of the town of Sudzha, testified how his pregnant wife was killed and his two-year-old child was wounded while a Ukrainian fighter shot at him looking him straight in the face. There was a Ukrainian armed forces soldier on the roadside. “We looked at each other in the face, and he shot me in my cap. My pregnant wife was driving another car behind me about seventy metres from me. I heard a soldier firing at her. Nina was already unconscious,” he said.
Viktor Kabantsov from the village of Malaya Loknya said that on the road to Sudzha, he was driving around mines and came under Ukrainian shelling. ‘I was in the car, and my son and my daughter-in-law and her mother were driving in the car behind me. Behind the sand, there were Ukrainians sitting in clusters. They started firing at us from small arms. They fired through the side door and wounded me in the arm. My son drove around me and managed to get away too. He was wounded in the arm, but managed to get away’.
According to the report Slavik Aloyan, a resident of the village of Blagodatnoye, told the tribunal about how his car was shot at by the Ukrainian military when he was travelling from the village of Blagodatnoye to Rylsk.
The report says the Ukrainian armed forces systematically targeted civilians with kamikaze drones. They fully understood their civilian status, as well as the vehicles they were in while attempting to evacuate.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova had stated that there was no information about the fate of those forcibly removed from Residents of the Kursk region during the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian territory.
“Today we have information that civilians have been forcibly removed from these territories, which is a gross violation [of the rules] for the treatment of civilians in the zone of armed conflict, their relatives have not been informed where they are, they have no contacts with relatives and friends by phone, or through any other channels. And we are insanely worried about their fate,” Moskalkova said during a press conference in Moscow.