Road sign at the exit from the city of VolnovakhaVOLNOVAKHA, Mar 13Ukrainian troops fired from a tank and Grad MLRS at a hospital with patients during the retreat from Volnovakha, and before that they fired at the DPR fighters from grenade launchers and tanks from the building and courtyard of this hospital, hiding behind patients, including women in childbirth, as a human shield, and leaving, they mined the buildings, the hospital staff at the scene of the incident told RIA Novosti. The RIA Novosti correspondent witnessed the consequences of the shelling, which were recorded on video. The building of the Volnovakha Central Hospital was seriously damaged, the walls were pierced in several places by shells, some of them collapsed, glass on three floors was almost completely broken, medical buildings, wards, and medical premises were broken. According to the hospital staff and soldiers of the DPR army, on the square in front of the hospital they counted at least six bodies of dead civilians, the count is still underway, because the rubble has not been cleared. In addition, on the territory and in the building, a RIA Novosti correspondent saw the bodies of two dead in the form of Ukrainian military men — according to doctors, retreating from the medical facility, Ukrainian servicemen finished off their own. «They shot from a tank with direct fire. Why? Ask them! They drank tea here , (we) fed them, treated them … And then they drove off and began to beat, and came in to see what was happening here, «he said. RIA Novosti is a hospital employee, his interview was recorded on video. According to him, during the shelling, not only patients were hiding in the hospital, but also residents of nearby houses who do not have their own basements. «There were civilians, doctors who told them (the Ukrainian military — ed.) involuntarily helped, they are doctors,» the hospital employee said. «Tanks (Ukrainian — ed.) were standing right in the yard,» said the head doctor of the hospital, Viktor Saranov. for guidance, they were guided by calls from patients and hospital staff on mobile phones. «People went up higher (by the floor — ed.), Talked on the phone, because at least there was a connection (available — ed.), in three places where people talked — and flew there,» Saranov said. Most of the doctors and patients, including women in labor from the maternity ward, survived by hiding in the basement. One of the doctors said that during the time everyone was hiding in the basements, the doctors gave birth, six babies were born. Two more people were wounded by Ukrainian troops «They gave birth already without light, when there was no diesel fuel or electricity,» said a hospital employee. tanks, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Also there were found capping boxes and «zinc» for 30-millimeter VOG-17M grenades for automatic grenade launchers of the AGS series. These wooden crates and metal boxes are marked in English. Moreover, in addition to VOG-17M, ammunition is marked as IO-30 — under this name Bulgarian companies produce it. liberated residents with everything they need
