MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. A machine gun unit of the Ukrainian armed forces shot civilians in Russia’s Kursk Region, Bogdan Nikitchenko, a captured Ukrainian soldier, said in a video provided to TASS by the Russian Defense Ministry.
"There was a machine gun platoon, roughly ten people. Disguised as Russian troops, they would enter villages and shoot the civilian population, residents, as well as soldiers — anyone they could. [I, too,] participated," he said.
According to Nikitchenko, the command sends "anyone available" to the Kursk Region. "Because they cannot maintain their positions at all. They sacrificed more than 500 of their people over the week," the prisoner of war (POW) added.
The captive stated that he had not witnessed the killing of Russian POWs personally but believes there were such incidents. "Since those who were brought into the territory were beaten with sticks, and then there were gunshots in the commander’s trench shelter, but a simple soldier like me could not enter it. No one saw them come out, and no one came for them," the POW recalled.