If the facts were to be confirmed, it would be a new step in the horror of this war led by the Russian army. Ten people queuing to buy bread were killed on Wednesday morning by Russian fire in Cherniguiv, northern Ukraine, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said.
“At 10 a.m. Russian soldiers fired on people queuing to buy bread near a grocery store in a residential area of Cherniguiv. According to an initial report, 10 civilians were killed,” the prosecution said in a statement. An investigation has been opened for “premeditated murders” committed using “firearms”, added this source, without further details.
For his part, the spokesman for the Russian army, Igor Konashenkov, denounced an act of “propaganda” by the Ukrainian regime, assuring during a televised briefing “that no Russian soldier has been and will not is in Cherniguiv (…) and no offensive is being carried out there”.
Five dead including three children later in the evening
“Thus, either all the people killed are victims of the terror of Ukrainian nationalists, or this is a new set-up by the Ukrainian security services,” he said. Russian tanks and combat had however been filmed during the first hours of the conflict.
In the evening this Wednesday, five bodies including those of three children were found in the rubble of an apartment building hit by a strike in the same city, rescuers announced. “While clearing the rubble of a collective dwelling, the rescuers pulled out five bodies, including those of three children,” the emergency services said on Telegram, while the Ukrainian armed forces published photos of the building. gutted facade.
Cherniguiv (300,000 inhabitants), one of the strategic towns north of kyiv, close to the border with Belarus, a country allied with Russia, was heavily shelled by Russian aircraft after the outbreak on February 24 of the offensive against Ukraine. The city had resisted for a week before giving in to the forces sent by the Kremlin.
Three adults were killed and three children injured on March 8 in the explosion of an antipersonnel mine in the region of this city located 150 km north of the Ukrainian capital, said Liudmyla Denissova, in charge of human rights at the Parliament Ukrainian. It was the first time since the start of the Russian invasion that a Ukrainian official had officially mentioned people killed by such mines.