Nose to nose with a killer
Fedorenko stated that three our bodies in all have been left on the highway exterior her home – though she doesn’t know whether or not they have been the our bodies of the troopers she noticed executed. After canines tried to eat the stays, Fedorenko persuaded the Russians to bury the our bodies within the sandy soil in entrance of her house.
Later, Fedorenko bought to know the person she noticed execute the 2 Ukrainian troopers. He instructed her that his title was ‘Vasily’, 22 years outdated and from Stavropol in southern Russia.
Fedorenko stated she additionally noticed ‘Vasiliy’ set the physique of one of many Ukrainian troopers on hearth.
“I screamed at him: ‘I am gonna stab you. You bastard, what are you doing, immediately you do it, and tomorrow you’ll be set on hearth,’” she recalled. ‘Vasily’s response was to “stand and smile”.
When Russian troopers discovered Melnyk, the chief platoon sergeant, mendacity injured in a secure two days after the struggle, they didn’t kill him. They instructed him that if he survived the evening he can be taken to Belarus. Melnyk did survive, though he misplaced his left arm, the fingers of his proper hand, and each of his legs. He got here again to Ukraine by way of a prisoner change in April.
Danylo Melnyk
The Safety Service of Ukraine instructed openDemocracy that based on their info, Dmytrivka was occupied by the third firm of Russia’s 104th Airborne Assault Regiment, plus items from Russia’s Fifth Tank Brigade.
I confirmed Melnyk photographs of a number of troopers in Russia’s Fifth Tank Brigade recognized to have died in the course of the invasion of Ukraine. He recognised {a photograph} of Dmitriy Lebedev, a commander in a howitzer self-propelled artillery battalion – who Melnyk stated was the “least nice” of the lads who interrogated him.
Based on town administration of the Siberian city of Bodaybo, Lebedev, 35, died combating in Ukraine and was posthumously awarded Russia’s Order of Braveness.Later, Dmytrivka resident Viktoria recognised one other Russian tank operator stationed in the home throughout the road from hers: Andrei Nazarov, from the 57th Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade. He has been recognized by InformNapalm, a volunteer open-source intelligence initiative. Nazarov’s newest profile picture on VKontakte means that he has continued to struggle, now within the Luhansk area.
Danylo Melnyk recognized Dmitry Lebedev because the Russian officer who interrogated him in Dmytrivka
Borys Kovalchuk, an area Orthodox priest, instructed openDemocracy that he transported 11 our bodies from Dmytrivka to a regional morgue in Zhytomyr. Kovalchuk was driving on the head of an evacuation convoy, from his personal village of Pylypovychi, which is near Dmytrivka, after the battle in early March.
Because the convoy left Dmytrivka, Father Borys stated, he observed three our bodies mendacity in a area close to the highway to Ozirshchyna. Two of the useless have been carrying Ukrainian uniforms and had been shot, whereas a 3rd was badly burned.
On one other evacuation run that went by way of Dmytrivka, on 17 March, Father Borys requested for permission to retrieve the our bodies, and the Russian troopers agreed. On 24 March, the Russian troopers requested the priest to take away eight extra our bodies from beneath a tree within the village.
The place the place Russian troopers burnt eight our bodies
Based on Fedorenko, these our bodies have been piled collectively throughout the highway from her home, the place she stored hay and wooden. The Russians stripped them of their uniforms and underwear, then coated the our bodies with hay and set them on hearth.
The our bodies didn’t burn utterly, so the troopers then tried to dig a pit to bury them in.
Later, it appears, they determined to ask Father Borys to take them.
“I observed that they have been scattered in a small pile, in two rows randomly mendacity on prime of one another,” Father Borys stated.
“We took a tarpaulin from the neighbours, and lower it into items the dimensions of a sheet so we may load our bodies, as a result of they have been very charred.”
Nelia Vinshchyk, Fedorenko’s neighbour throughout the road, instructed openDemocracy that she remembers seeing at the very least two useless Russian troopers mendacity in her yard, and two on the road. The regional morgue in Zhytomyr declined to touch upon whether or not Russians have been among the many individuals whose our bodies it obtained.
