KYIV. UkraineGate . 5 . January . 2023 | War News.
Law enforcement officers have identified Russian soldiers who shot 10 civilian cars on the Zhytomyr highway in the Kyiv region.
It is reported that during the full-scale invasion, two battalion tactical groups from the 5th separate tank brigade of the Russian Federation were among the first to enter the territory of Ukraine from Belarus. The occupiers were moving in the direction of Kyiv. On March 3, they went to the Zhytomyr track. One battalion tactical group took a position in the village of Berezivka, the second – at a gas station, near the village of Mila.
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“It was the second battalion-tactical group that committed the most shootings and murders on the Zhytomyr highway . Russian tanks were stationed behind the gas station, next to it and opposite it, thus blocking traffic in both directions. The next day, March 4, the invaders shot five cars. Then seven Ukrainians died, four more received gunshot wounds,” said Oleksandr Klymovskyi, the head of the investigative department of the GUNP in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
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According to him, two cars were the first to come under fire: one was occupied by a married couple who miraculously survived. A family with a small child was traveling in the second car. They managed to drive much further under fire than the car that was driving in front, so the occupiers organized a real hunt and began to conduct heavy fire on the car.
Klimovsky said that as a result, a two-year-old girl and her father received gunshot wounds, and the mother died. The severely wounded father walked quite a distance with his daughter in his arms. They were driven to the nearest Ukrainian checkpoint by a driver who was passing nearby. There, the victims were given medical assistance.
Klimovsky noted that on March 7, the occupiers fired at a convoy of 14-15 vehicles. The first three cars were under fire.
In the course of the pre-trial investigation, it was established that the Russian military – from March 4 to 25 – shot 10 vehicles. As a result, 13 people died, six were injured.
“And we are talking only about those people who were driving cars. We also have evidence of the killing of civilians in nearby settlements, as well as those who tried to walk past their combat positions,” said Klymovskyi.
Klymovsky reported that currently the investigators of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, employees of the Department for the Protection of Public and State Interests, with the support of the operational services of the National Police and the procedural management of the Prosecutor General’s Office, have identified most of the personnel of the 5th Separate Tank Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
“It was also announced that the commander of the battalion of the 5th OTBr, who directed the shooting of a motorcade of civilians on the Zhytomyr highway, is under suspicion. In addition, evidence of involvement in the shootings of other servicemen of the Russian Federation was collected. Operatives and investigators identified and created a photo database of 400 occupiers who took an active part in hostilities and committed war crimes in the Kyiv region,” Klimovskyi said.
Source: Ukrgate