At least 20 civilians were found shot to death inside their cars in northeastern Ukraine near Kupyansk, Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegoubov announced on Telegram on Saturday.
“A convoy of cars with dead civilians on board was discovered. According to preliminary data, 20 people died in these cars,” reads the regional governor’s message, quoted by AFP.
According to Oleg Synegoubov, “the occupants [russos] They attacked civilians who were trying to escape the bombardment.” “It is a cruelty that has no justification,” he added.
The governor of the Kharkiv region, where the bodies were found, said “police and experts have arrived at the scene” and “an investigation is underway.”
On Friday, an AFP team saw at least 11 bodies of civilians shot dead in their cars, on a road abandoned by the Russians after their withdrawal from the region last week.
The convoy of vehicles that AFP saw on Friday was on a road 70 kilometers east of Kharkiv when it was shot.
The bodies were still at the scene, inside or next to six vehicles.
A small bus was burned to the ground, where four bodies lay on the seats, one of which appeared to be a child.
The dead civilians were found in a place where there were recent clashes between Ukrainians and Russians, in the great Ukrainian counter-offensive in the region.
Facing military difficulties, the Russian soldiers withdrew further east across the Oskil River, but the Ukrainians managed to cross it, which was a great success for kyiv.
A pro-Russian separatist official, for his part, accused the Ukrainian army on Thursday of having fired on a convoy of civilians in the Kharkiv region, killing 30 people, without giving further details.
Since the beginning of the invasion, kyiv has denounced abuses by Moscow troops, accusations that Russia has consistently denied.
Source: TSF
