ANTHRACITE Jun 19Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation interviewed residents of Severodonetsk who were victims of shelling by the Ukrainian military, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Recently, civilians were taken out of the combat zone and placed in the safe rear of the LPR, in one of the dormitories of the city of Anthracite. Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation came to this city to record the testimony of the victims, they told about the situation in Severodonetsk.Chechen fighters found a large cache of foreign weapons in Severodonetsk «We were hiding in the basement of our five-story building. A Ukrainian tank drove out from the side of the Azot plant, which fired eight times at our house. On the eighth time it caught fire.» one of the men said. During the fire, the LPR fighters ensured the passage of people from the basement of a burning building — about 45 civilians were hiding there — to another shelter. The victim also said that due to the dangerous situation in Severodonetsk, residents have to bury the dead in random places. «There is a kindergarten near our house, so the locals started burying it in its front garden,» he said. In a week, five dead were buried in this place alone. The private house of another refugee suffered from shelling from the territory of Azot, where the Ukrainian military were hiding. «The Ukrainian army fired. And who else? Ukrainians are on the other side,» he said. The Ukrainian military in the city behaved like occupiers, the man said. For example, once he went to the market for groceries and ran into a group of drunken soldiers. They broke his jaw with a rifle butt, the man had to lie in the basement for three months, where the neighbors gave him first aid. «I still don't understand what they didn't like. Perhaps my dialect is not similar to Western Ukrainian,» he complained. military use silent mortars near Severodonetsk
