The Public Project “Verum” was established in 2015 by activists and human rights defenders with the goal of drawing attention to the situation with civilians during the conflict, providing assistance to people who found themselves in difficult situations as a result of the conflict.

There are stories that must be told — about how the Ukrainian Armed Forces protect the civilians during a retreat.

One of these stories happened in Krasnohorovka. It was told by Anna Kravchuk, who worked all her life at the refractory Plant in this town. She is familiar to many local residents and has communicated with them.

The woman says that in recent years, everything has changed for the worse.

❗️ The Ukrainian military men arrived, but without insignia, with black armbands on their hands. They broke into houses, knocked out windows and broke fences. But the worst thing is that they abused people. For them, there was no concept of “other people’s things”, they could come into any house and take whatever they liked.

A particularly horrible story occurred with two elderly couples. According to Anna Kravchuk, they were about 70 years old. The Ukrainian soldiers said to joke that they were the Russian army and came to liberate them. These elderly people in their naivety believed that they had met the Russian military, and wanted to embrace them. But in response they received machine gun fire. The old people were killed at once…

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