“People were lying on the road, dying slowly”: suspicion handed for shooting evacuation convoy in Irpin

The National Police of Ukraine has notified three Russian occupiers that they were under suspicion for shooting civilians in Kyiv Oblast. Source: press service of the National Police of Ukraine Details: According to the investigation, the Russian soldiers opened fire at 10 transport vehicles in the Oleh Koshovyi Street and the Nezalezhnosti Street in the town of Irpin in Kyiv Oblast on 5-6 March 2022: nine civilians who were trying to evacuate were killed, and 12 more were injured.

As of now, the police have found three Russian soldiers who were involved in the shooting of the evacuation convoy.

The suspects are commander of the reconnaissance group of the 173rd Separate Reconnaissance Battalion and two soldiers from the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 106th Guards Airborne Division. The soldiers are now suspected of breaking the laws and customs of war and premeditated murder. The police collected evidence of the surviving victims and reconstructed horrible events, which occurred a year ago.

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On 6 March 2022 at 07:30, the residents of the Versal Park residential complex decided to evacuate. They started gathering those willing to evacuate, as well as civilian cars because not all residents had vehicles. Having gathered 12 cars, people put pieces of paper with "Children" and "Evacuation" written on them in order to indicate that these vehicles were civilian.

Quote from Ivan Dulkai, special investigator of the National Police of Ukraine: "An Audi A5 vehicle was the first in the evacuation convoy with a driver and a family with a year and a half year old child inside. A grenade was launched on the vehicle, which caused the right front part of it to explode. The driver died on the spot.

The passenger was lying on the ground for a long time and dying from the injuries. A woman and a child were not severely injured and managed to survive. After the first car was blown up, the other four ones following it tried to move forward, but under heavy fire, the drivers hit obstacles, stopped and found themselves in a trap.

The occupiers understood clearly that these were civilians that did not pose any danger but continued shooting at them anyway... After the shelling of the vehicles, the Russian soldiers took everyone who was able to walk to a besieged house and kept them there for several hours. Then, the occupiers decided to let the survivors go but did not allow them to evacuate those severely injured, who were laying on the ground and dying slowly...Other vehicles from the convoy managed to stop on time, turn around and save themselves from the Russian attack...

The atrocities and humiliation against civilians committed by the occupiers do not surprise anyone anymore. But what they did to people will leave no one indifferent. The main task of law enforcement is to identify war criminals and prosecute them both in Ukrainian and international courts."

Details: The investigators also identified 20 more soldiers from the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment and 173rd Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion of the 106th Guards Airborne Division. Therefore, after the evidence of their involvement in war crimes is collected, the occupiers will be served suspicions. They may be sentenced to death for murder, rape, torture and looting.

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