
Damaged houses in Izum, September 17, 2022. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters
New evidence of residents of the cities of the Kharkov region about torture during occupation, in Melitopol, a new series of sabotage, conscripts from the Moscow region are forced to sign contracts to send them to the border with Ukraine. The Mediazone chose the main thing from everything that happened during the day in the war and in connection with the war.
The head of the Kharkov region Sinegubov spoke about the exhumation of the corpses found in Raisins, who was under Russia's control for six months - about 450 graves were found there. According to Sinegubov, 99% of bodies have signs of violent death. “There are several bodies with hands tied behind his back, and one person is buried with a rope around his neck. Obviously, these people were tortured and executed. There are also children among the buried, ”he says.
One man, as a forensic expert told reporters, hands were tied and a scrotum was cut off. The personality and age of the murdered were not established, his body was in the grave at number 91.
Maxar today published satellite pictures of the burial places - they can see how the cemetery grew.
Suspilna publishes a small report from the village of Small passes: there the Russian military arranged the headquarters in a private house, now it is completely destroyed. “They decided who to live, who should not live. They themselves lived for pleasure. I and my father were enemies of the people for them. They stole. People will return, well, what are you doing? And they ... the people's police decide everything, ”says Alexei Muralev, who lived in the village all this time.
The Security Service of Ukraine published a video with the story of a resident of Kupyansk about how the Russian military arranged torture and interrogations. “They threatened: you will see a peaceful sky only on a minefield,” he says. “Personally, they shot me from pneumatics or gas, I don’t know, because I was in a bag. Beat with bits or pipes. Ephesians in the office closed and did what they wanted. When it hurts a lot, you scream, and you got for the fact that you are screaming, ”the man continues. According to him, on someone, the security forces burned "Nazi crosses."
A video is published from the room that was used for torture in raisins. According to the head of the Ukrainian police Igor Klimenko, ten such premises were found in the Kharkov region.
The western part of Kupyansk is now under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, like the city of Balakli. The Belarusian edition of Mirror published a detailed story of a resident of the city about how she lived for six months under the Russian authorities.
In the Kharkov region, according to the head of the administration Oleg Sinegubov, a 11-year-old girl died during the shelling of the city of Chuguev. In Kharkov itself, two missiles were recorded . In Slavyansk, Donetsk region, missiles damaged the equipment of the thermal power station, because of this, problems with the water supply began in the village of Nikolaevka (at the end of May it was reported that the thermal power plants stopped working due to constant shelling). During the shelling of a neighboring Kramatorsk, five people were injured , as many injured in Konstantinovka .
Donetsk and surrounding settlements were subjected to serious shelling. In Donetsk itself, the rocket hit the building of the administration of the Voroshilovsky district in the city center. According to the head of the city administration, during the shelling of the district four people were killed, two of them burned in a car. The wound of the Venezuelan Channel reporter is also reported . In addition, in the Belgorod region, when shelling a border village of Krasny Khutor, a woman died .
In the morning there was information about explosions in occupied Melitopol. Pro -Russian sources reported that reinforced concrete supports of power lines were damaged, and the elected mayor of the city claims that the Russian military base was destroyed near the city. As the local RIA Melitopol noted, part of the railway canvas was damaged, “according to which the invaders deliver weapons and fuel” from the Crimea.
Later, data from five explosions appeared - both Ukrainian and Russian sources write about them, but not a single side has yet brought other details.
In addition, data on another sabotage on the railway were published .
The Russian BBC service reports that conscripts from the motorized rifle regiment of the Taman division are forced to sign a contract so that they can be sent from the Moscow Region to the border with Ukraine-to the city of Valoiki in the Belgorod region, which had recently been shot. The publication refers to the mothers of three soldiers. “The officers said that if you find a replacement among those who wish, it would be possible not to go to Valuyki, but only four people wanted to voluntarily go there, and everyone else did not want to sign a contract or go on a business trip,” said one of the interlocutors of the publication.
The “Caucasian Knot” noticed that the Telegram channel “PPPs95” published a video on September 15, in which people in military form repeat the man in civilian speech in the Chechen language. “A person says that they all intend to protect the religion of the Almighty and contribute to its strengthening, as well as to fight the opponents of this religion“ with the army of Iblis ”(devil), mentioning“ Gazavat ”,” writes the Caucasian Knot. Gazavat is a sacred war in Islam.
The source of the publication identified the man as the former deputy mufti Magomed Khiitanaev, it is said that he was fired from his post in 2017. After the start of the war, there were reports that Khitanaev was captured. According to the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurahmanov in March, the opposition Ramzan Kadyrov, "the dude guilty of Kadyrov, should everyone should redeem their guilt in Ukraine today."
Meanwhile, the publication “like this” writes about dozens of reports for dismissal, which the Russian military filed, while they were in Raisins. Judging by the excerpts, they referred to moral and physical fatigue. Many military personnel have previously told Mediazone more than once that refuseniks have to write such reports many times, and the commanders do not take them into account; Apparently, such reports were found in the raised raisins broken by the Ukrainian army.
Text: Dima Shvets
Editor: Yegor Skovoroda