One of the russists tells his wife about the criminal tacticts of the russian army in Donbas during the telephone conversation intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine on June 1. 

«Brigade commander comes here and says: «You… [swears a lot], how come you can’t take some village?» We tell him there are civilians. Well, who cares? We retreated for one and a half kilometers from there and launched a volley from all cannons. And that’s it, we just leveled it [swears again]».

The occupant’s wife swears in return.

«We just leveled the f***ing village. Some of us went there… these f***ing dead bodies are still burned in the village. They burn the bodies of soldiers and civilians alike». 

Ukrainian special services received confirmation of the fact that the elimination of Ukrainians is a move planned by the russian government, and it matches the definition of genocide. A russian sniper captured in Volnovakha district in Donetsk region tells his story: «I am a sniper, and I serve with the military unit 66461 of the 4th Guards military base. On April 29, we’ve got an order to agree to killing civilians in Ukraine. Everyone signed the respective document – well, everyone in our company. On April 29, I filed the report refusing to do so. Some of us refused, too, but the deputy commander told us to file new reports from the scratch. He told us if we don’t go there we will be court-martialed or just fired. On May 4, we departed from Mozdok to the Republic of Crimea…».

One more phone conversation intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine reveals the discussion of two russists who patrol the outposts in the temporarily occupied Kherson region. 

«They told me to f***ing kill all the suspicious people – no small talks. I have an order from the Major: whenever a car or a van with some sort of cargo approaches the outpost, I should check it and ask the driver what’s in the cargo. If he acts suspiciously, f***ing kill him, and that’s it», says the bastard, callsign «Sedoy».

The other occupant specifies: «Oh, so you will be the first ones to burn them. And if you don’t manage to, then we do, right?»

The SBU has been documenting the atrocities of russian occupants; since the full-scale invasion of the russian federation in Ukraine, the authority opened more than 10,000 criminal cases. 

Photo: Office of the Prosecutor General.

One of the villages destroyed by the invaders in Ukraine.