Nine people, including children, were killed in Volnovakha

Nine people were killed in the city of Volnovakha in the Russian-controlled part of the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Among the dead are two children. According to a number of reports, the murder could have been committed by a Russian serviceman, but this has not been officially confirmed.

The Investigative Committee of Russia reported the day before that a criminal case had been initiated under the article on the murder of two or more persons. The message said that the bodies of the victims were found in a private house, which belonged to the deceased family, with gunshot wounds.

Telegram channel “Astra”, referring to local residents, neighbors and relatives of those killed, claims that the murder was committed by a Russian soldier. According to the channel’s interlocutors, the murder took place on October 27 in a private residential building on Donetska Street. The house belonged to a family – a husband and wife, they had two children, a schoolgirl and a 4-year-old boy. All of them, as it is said, were killed, as well as five other people who were in the house. It is confirmed that these were the guests who were celebrating their birthday.

The circumstances of the murder remain unclear. Some interlocutors of “Astra”, as well as users of the local chat, claim that shortly before the murder, the Russian soldier quarreled with the owner of the house. According to a number of reports, the murder was committed by “military men on motorcycles”, and at the time when the people in the house were sleeping.

Officially, the Investigative Committee, representatives of the Russian authorities and the military did not comment on these messages.

Volnovakha was occupied by Russian troops in March 2022. During the fighting, the city was seriously destroyed. Now he is relatively far from the front line. The Russian authorities consider the city, as well as the entire Donetsk region, to be the territory of Russia.