Russian soldier shot dead nine members of a family with children

Volnovakha has been occupied by Russian troops since March 11, 2022. As a result of the hostilities, the city was almost completely destroyed, and the local residents were evacuated.

In Volnovakha, a Russian soldier shot a family of nine people, including two children.

“The Russian waxman shot nine people right in the house. Including a girl — a 4th grade student. A large family was shot for refusing to hand over the house to the Kadyrivians,” said Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the Mariupol chairman.

The adviser to the chairman of Mariupoli emphasized that this is the biggest crime of the Russians after the occupation, which they are no longer trying to hide.

He also reported that the information about the murder was confirmed by “our partners in information resistance from Volnovakha”.

The website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports that the bodies of nine residents of Volnovakha, including two children, “were found in a private residential building with gunshot wounds.”

It is also said that a criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of the crime provided for in clauses “a, c” of part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of more than two persons, including minors). Suspects are not mentioned.

Meanwhile, the Russian publication ASTRA reported that the neighbors and relatives of those killed claim that the murder was committed by a Russian soldier.

Neighbors and a distant relative of the murdered said that the murder took place on October 27 in a house on the street. Donetsk.

“Man and wife lived in the house – Nataliya and Andrii, as well as their children – junior school student Nastya and 4-year-old Nikita. It is not known exactly what happened before the murder. The criminal shot the entire family with children and 5 other people who were also in the house,” the report said.

A distant relative of those killed, citing eyewitnesses, said that “they killed military men on motorcycles, and everyone was lying in bed, that is, they did it while they were sleeping.”

“The murder was committed by a serviceman of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He did not share something with Natalka’s husband. The top came immediately, and they started trying to hide everything, the neighbors were told to keep quiet,” a family acquaintance told the Russian newspaper.

Neighbors reported that on October 27, “their mother-in-law had a birthday on Friday, and everyone was killed at night.” According to them, on October 28, relatives started looking for the murdered and called the police, after which they opened the house and found the bodies.

“All were killed by shots to the head. On the beds. The house was flooded, apparently to hide the evidence. All the neighbors say that the killers are soldiers. No one has been arrested, everyone is now scared,” said another neighbor of the family.