Amnesty International publishes results of its surveys in Ukraine

The NGO interviewed several dozen inhabitants in the vicinity of kyiv, direct witnesses of murders or bombing.

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“He will not come back.” It is the only answer, sarcastic, that Volodymyr obtained when he asked a Russian soldier to leave his son-in-law, Oleh Abramov, lend him a hand to put out the fire who had just declared himself in the family home after the jet of a grenade.

This March 5 in the morning in the city of Boutcha, residential suburb of kyiv, when Russian soldiers parked their armored vehicles in the garden of neighbors before opening fire on the house, Oleh had come to meet them , hands in the air, imploring them: “Please do not shoot, we are civilians.” The young man will be executed in the street while his stepfather and his wife are questioned in the courtyard of the house, prey to flames.

Dans un rapport intitulé ” “Il ne reviendra pas”. Crimes de guerre dans le nord-ouest de l’oblast de kyiv “, présenté à kyiv vendredi 6 mai, Amnesty International dévoile le résultat d’enquêtes et d’entretiens In -depth conducted in the field in recent weeks in Boutcha, Borodianka, Novi Korohod, Andriivka, Zdvyzhivka, Vorzel, Makariv and Dmytrivka. In this area, where reporters of the world also went, the Russian army left a landscape bruised by destruction, killings and looting after its failed attempt to assault the Ukrainian capital. At the beginning of April, after its withdrawal, the Ukrainian authorities said that at least 300 civilians had been killed in the Boutcha city alone.

Amnesty International collected the accounts of 45 people witnesses to the murder of their loved ones and their neighbors, as well as those of 39 other inhabitants who were victims or attended air strikes that destroyed large sets of housing . As in Borodianka, 56 kilometers from kyiv, where a series of bombings killed more than 40 residents of a set of eight buildings on 1 er and March 2.

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The NGO has also identified 22 cases of assassinations committed by the Russian forces, some of which are similar to extrajudicial executions preceded by acts of torture. A l’image des meurtres, à Boutcha, de Vassiliy Nedachkivsky, un installateur de fenêtres âgé de 47 ans et père de deux enfants, et de son voisin Igor Lytvynenko, âgé d’une vingtaine d’années, qui dont les corps ont été Found on March 31 in a building which served as an improvised detention center. Leurs dépouilles, dont les photos ont été analysées par Amnesty International, présentaient des plaies ouvertes et des hématomes sur toute une partie du corps.

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