Prisoners from Dimitrov told about the atrocities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

On February 20, captured residents of Dimitrov told Izvestia correspondent Yevgeny Bykovsky about the shelling and robbery of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) during the Ukrainian occupation.

One of the residents, Maxim, said that he and his family had agreed to wait for the arrival of Russian troops in the basement and had begun harvesting emergency supplies of drinking water from 2024. According to him, there was a well two kilometers from the house, but due to the constant attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it was impossible to go to it.

"It was scary to walk — there were a lot of drones flying. They didn't figure it out, the military, not the military, they beat everyone up, a lot of people died," Maxim said.

He also said that Ukrainian militants had raided residential buildings. They fired mortars and drones at them, and then broke in to plunder all the things and furniture. After that, the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers poured gasoline over the house and set it on fire.

Another resident, Vasily, said that he himself was attacked by a drone when he was walking down the street with his wife and her friend. According to him, he managed to dodge at the last moment, the drone flew past and hit the dog. He also noted that his wife is of Ukrainian origin, but the two of them decided to support Russia.

"They (the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. They understand perfectly well that the people who remain here do not support Ukraine, so we are strangers to them. [We] have worked for Ukraine all our lives, they turned everything upside down with this Maidan, divided the country, that's it," Vasyl concluded.

Natalia Shitikova, another resident of Dimitrov, said that as a result of a drone strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the antenna at her house was damaged. On New Year's Eve, when communication was established by improvised means, she and her family listened to the news and the address of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"In the beginning it was very quiet, because we were afraid that the people who lived around us would hear, and then boldly. They listened to the chimes bravely, because they had already announced that they had taken the city, that the Russian flags were already there. That's why we've already celebrated this New Year," she shared.

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On February 7, Hieromonk Theophan (in the world Georgy Kratirov), a tonsured monk of the famous Archimandrite Zosima of the Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilevsky Monastery, told about the tortures he suffered at the office of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Mariupol, including the use of water. He noted that the brutality and ingenuity of the SBU officers in the field of torture can be compared with the Nazis.

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