Destroyed buildings in Rubizhne. Archival photo RUBEZHNOE (LPR), May 18. Elena Tsygilnik, a resident of Rubezhnoye, told RIA Novosti that in early March, Ukrainian troops killed her 29-year-old daughter Anna, her relative and three other neighbors. «They were in the house, in the basement (where they were hiding from shelling — ed.). We went in and killed them,» Tsygilnik told RIA Novosti. When asked who did it, the woman replied: “Ours, Ukrainians.” On the same day, the Ukrainian military killed three more people on this street, including a 60-year-old man. All the dead were left in the cellars of their houses, where the bodies lay until the end of April. Only after these areas came under the control of the LPR forces, local residents were able to organize a funeral. The woman does not know about the reasons for the brutal reprisal. Perhaps the Ukrainian troops suspected local residents of disloyalty or espionage, or simply wanted to «free» their homes to equip firing points. Now Elena and her husband Sergey are going to testify to the investigating authorities.
