From the first days of the war in Ukraine, the war crimes of Russian military personnel were not stopped by anyone from the high command.
Igor Rudenko admitted this at a press conference of prisoners of war of the RF Armed Forces on March 19. He served in military unit 176-26, located on the territory of the occupied Crimea, as the head of communications.
The prisoner of war admitted on camera that he had witnessed how his subordinates shot at point-blank range a passenger car with civilians in the Kherson region.
The reason for this was that the car “did not stop at the request of Russian soldiers&# 8221;.
Note that during the press conference, the prisoner of war used the word “fascists”, referring to the Russian military.
Direct speech of a Russian prisoner of war
We received an order from the Commander-in-Chief to break into the territory of Ukraine, take up defense in the Novaya Kakhovka area, complete the task there, and then advance to the Kherson area and consolidate our positions there, which the personnel did not know and did not even suspect.
< p>In Novaya Kakhovka, we were faced with the fact that, firstly, our brigade had never fought, the servicemen were not trained, many had never held a machine gun in their hands.
After the deployment of our artillery (howitzer division ), hiding behind civilians, we stopped at a small area of the stadium, and on the sides & # 8212; houses with civilians.
We were ordered to fire a volley on the outskirts of the city. But when I looked at the map, it turned out that there were houses there, civilians.
… shot at a civilian car in Nova Kakhovka. There was a woman there and the — her son. They shot from a machine gun, as they were driving and did not stop (at the request of the military of the Russian Federation — Ed.).
After we fired a volley, mines flew at us, began to explode, Bayraktars bombed. Our guys just started to scatter in different directions, not understanding what was happening.
