Destroyed houses in Mariupol. File photoSUKHODOLSK (LPR), June 14Igor Kirpota, a resident of Mariupol, told investigators how the nationalists fired at him and his neighbors, preventing them from extinguishing the house, and the Russian military helped to evacuate to Novoazovsk. Now he lives with his daughter in the LPR in the city of Sukhodolsk, where he was interviewed by employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia. «All started on March 2. All the neighbors, when heavy shelling began, went to the basement. We had about 32 people in the basement, «Kirpota said. According to the man, he and his neighbors lived in the basement throughout March. During this time, four people died from their house, they were temporarily buried in the yard: «Two grandmothers, my friend's wife and another woman.» Not far from their house, at school No. 61, there was a base of nationalists from the Azov regiment — according to Kirpoty, it was distinguished by the «fascist cross» on the doors.A resident of the LPR told how she lost her husband and brother in the battles for MariupolMariupolets added that the nationalists did not allow civilians to put out fires in houses that arose due to shelling. «They shot at the legs from machine guns, machine guns,» he testifies. that the Russian military showed readiness to help civilians.
"When there was no more strength left to sit in the basement, the people decided to leave the house. The residents of the house left", he said.
We had to walk several blocks. There, Kirpota spent the night with friends, and in the morning the military took him along with other people by bus to neighboring Novoazovsk. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.