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A few days later, Russian soldiers returned and shot all the family members in the house. Russian prosecutors announced they have started an investigation of the Russian soldiers suspected in the murders. [2] Photos from the crime scenes included family members shot dead in their beds, some embracing each other, and blood on the walls.
An amateur video dated 21 March 2000, was uncovered and released in 2004 by Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta.In it, a grainy black-and-white footage shows a large group of naked and half-naked Chechen prisoners who had accepted the Russian offer of amnesty, most of them injured; the captives shown are mostly men and adolescent boys, many of them having visible ...
On 7 September, Serhii Balanchuk , a former football player for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team, a lawyer and a soldier, was killed by Russian artillery shelling near Bakhmut. [41] On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk. [42]
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин; 26 October 1842 – 13 April 1904) was a Russian painter, war artist, and traveller. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to the public.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals, medical facilities and on the energy grid; [1] [2] [3] indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas; the abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual violence ...
The battle of Vuhledar was a major battle between the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of Vuhledar, a city in Donetsk Oblast, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian commanders described the clashes as "the largest tank battle" of the Russo-Ukrainian War to date.
The Battle of Komsomolskoye took place in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War. Beginning on 6 March 2000 and lasting until 24 March 2000, it resulted in the deaths of more than 50 Russian soldiers and hundreds of Chechen militants over the course of two weeks of siege warfare. An unknown number of civilians were killed in the fighting as well.
The Makiivka surrender incident happened during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 in the village of Makiivka, Luhansk Oblast. Videos depicted what appeared to be at least ten Russian soldiers surrendering to four Ukrainian soldiers in Makiivka. [1] Russian soldiers exited an outhouse one by one and laid facedown on the ground. [1]