The Russians take prisoners of border residents

The Russians capture the residents of the border community of Vovchansk. The prosecutor’s office started an investigation.

According to the investigation, since May 11, Russian troops have been forcibly detaining people in the basement of the Vovchansk community. Some of them managed to escape on May 13 and reach the volunteers. People are safe now.

One of the victims reported that they could have been shot. The woman who escaped said that civilians were forced to provide medical aid to the Russian military.

Such actions of the Russian military are a direct violation of the Convention on the Protection of the Civilian Population in Time of War, signed in Geneva in 1949. The participants of this Convention are Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The investigation is conducted under part 1 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws and customs of war).

Russian troops began an offensive in the north of the Kharkiv region on May 10. The main directions of attacks – on Vovchansk and on Lipka.

The head of the city’s military administration, Tamaz Gambarashvili, reported yesterday evening that all the streets of Vovchansk are controlled by the Armed Forces, and there are no Russian soldiers in the city. But the city is constantly shelled. Vovchansk is practically destroyed, there are almost no people left in the city.

The evacuation of residents of the border area, where the situation has worsened, continues. In total, over three days from May 10, about 6,000 people were evacuated.