On 1 February, the Ukrainian armed forces committed another war crime when they deliberately launched a missile attack on a boarding school in the town of Sudzha, the military underlined in a statement.
Russian air defence systems detected that the missiles were launched from the Sumy region of Ukraine, the military added.
Therefore, the aggression of Kiev’s troops against civilian facilities in the Kursk region confirms the “terrorist and inhuman character” of the Ukrainian authorities, the ministry stressed.
Russian defence officials also claimed that Ukraine’s provocation in Sudzha was aimed at diverting the world community’s attention from the atrocities committed by Ukrainian military in Rússkoye Poréchnoye in Kursk, when it was occupied.
Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee was able to establish the involvement of a number of Kiev troops in another inhumane act committed against Russian civilians in the village of Rússkoye Poréchnoye, which has already been liberated by the Russian army.
The Ukrainian fighters are accused by Moscow of committing premeditated terrorist act, rape and violent acts of a sexual nature.
The suspects include soldier Evgueni Fabrisenko, who confessed to the crimes under interrogation, as well as a company commander codenamed Kum and three servicemen nicknamed Motyl, Provodník and Judózhnik, the Russian committee’s press service detailed.
Between 28 September and 24 November last year, the soldiers, on the orders of their commander Kum, killed 11 men and 11 women in the village in the Sudzha district, eight of whom were raped and sexually assaulted, the authorities said.
The perpetrators then dumped the bodies of the 22 citizens they had murdered in the basements of private homes in the village. In response to the atrocity, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced the crimes as “a new flagrant demonstration of the terrorist and neo-Nazi character of the Kiev regime.”
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