Burnt military equipment and cars on a street in Rubizhne. File photoRUBEZHNOE (LPR), June 10A Ukrainian sniper shot a civilian during the battles for the city of Rubizhnoye in the Donbass and did not allow him to approach the body for two days — his relatives had to bury him literally under bullets, said Natalia Onishchenko, a resident of Rubizhnoye. which will be considered at the future tribunal. «My husband and sister and I were standing under the window (of our house in the private sector — ed.). We wanted to tighten it with a film instead of glass, which was knocked out by fragments during shelling. And then a sniper shot my husband in the head, he sank under the fence. Then I thought that he was hiding from bullets… And the sniper didn’t let him pick up the body for two more days — he kept shooting at the house, «Onishchenko told the head of the special commission, Anna Soroka. When the shooting stopped, the neighbors helped Natalya drag the body into yard. She buried her husband in a shell crater — due to the ongoing hostilities, it was impossible to arrange a normal funeral. «We were digging a grave with our 15-year-old daughter, and the bullets were flying over our heads. Let's run out of hiding, dig. Shooting will start — we will go back to the shelter. They did it five or six times. And then they took documents and money and fled from home,» — said Onishchenko.“It’s better not to meddle in the forest”: who did the LPR army encounter in Severodonetsk? Their attitude, says a resident of Rubizhne, was very different from that which the locals met from the Ukrainian military. «They only shot in the back those who were running towards the LPR: they say, they had to evacuate towards Ukraine. But there was no evacuation organized there,» Onishchenko said. Her husband's body was exhumed by the special commission and handed over to Natalya for burial. Onishchenko family was in direct line of sight from the checkpoint set up by Ukrainian soldiers down the street.During the several days that Ukrainian neo-Nazis terrorized residents, arranging searches in houses and searches, Ukrainian militants had the opportunity to remember everyone by sight.Consequently, by opening fire, the Ukrainian killer he was well aware that he was shooting at a civilian,» the conclusion of the special commission on this matter reads.»They are not fighting on their own land.» What locals say about the battle for Donbass Rubizhne is part of the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration, its population before the outbreak of hostilities exceeded 55 thousand people. Fighting for control of the city has been going on since the beginning of the Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. At the end of April, the People's Militia of the LPR confirmed that the city had come under the control of the republic. Rubizhne is left without electricity, gas and water supply, residents are in dire need of medicines. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
