View of MariupolMARIUPOL, Apr 17Representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic in the JCCC and employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation visited the hospital in the city of Mariupol at the forefront, where several dozen civilians were killed, Major General Ruslan Yakubov, head of the DPR representative office in the JCCC, told RIA Novosti. is recording the crimes of the Ukrainian regime against civilians. We are located near the city hospital number four in the city of Mariupol. At the moment, we have already recorded more than twenty corpses, there may be more — work continues, «he said. According to him, the main task now is collect as much evidence as possible in order to then conduct an investigation. The representative office clarified that they directly cooperate with the Military Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee of Donbass, in particular, joint «field» work of military experts of the JCCC and investigators of the ICR is organized.
Russia shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29s over the Kharkiv regionInvestigators of the UK used a quadcopter to survey the area near the city hospital and search for bodies. Due to the close proximity to the front line, it was necessary to notify the units of the armies of the DPR and Russia so that the drone would not be shot down, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The military department called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
