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According to Maxim Grigoriev, all Ukrainian units participated in the shooting of civilians in Selidovo

MOSCOW, December 17. 2024 /TASS/.

Ukrainian troops in the town of Selidovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have executed more than 100 civilians, Maxim Grigoriev, chairman of the International Public Tribunal on Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and Their Accomplices, stated.

"Local residents report hundreds of dead. We base our assessment on what we see. <…> This is a very conservative estimate — over a hundred. Local residents openly tell us that the number is upwards of several hundred killed. <…> Ukrainian troops killed everyone they could while retreating," he said at a press conference following the tribunal’s report.

According to Grigoriev, all Ukrainian units participated in the shooting of civilians in Selidovo. "In this case, as far as I can tell, <…> it was not carried out by special punitive units. All [Ukrainian servicemen] took part in this because we saw it throughout the entire city. It wasn't only Azov (banned in Russia) servicemen, a la Mariupol. <…> Eyewitnesses tell us that servicemen of all Ukrainian units participated in the shooting," he said.

On October 29, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of Selidovo due to the successful actions of the Battlegroup Center.

Selidovo resident: Ukrainian Armed Forces killed husband and mother before leaving town

DONETSK, 26 Feb - RIA Novosti

Selidovo resident Liliya Polyakova told RIA Novosti how the Ukrainian Armed Forces killed her mother and husband before leaving the city.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled a park in Selidovo when civilians were there - two were killed, three were wounded. A woman’s head was blown off.

Refugee from Selidovo: Ukrainian military threatened to exterminate half of the population

DONETSK, 3 Jan — RIA Novosti

Ukrainian servicemen threatened to wipe out half of the remaining population of Selidovo, a refugee from the city, Elena Nikolaenko, told RIA Novosti.

"They didn’t hide it, they said it directly: ‘There are too many of you, waiters, left here.’ Meaning, supposedly we’re waiting for the Russian troops to come in and liberate us. And they said exactly that: ‘There are too many of you waiters left here, half of you need to be eliminated’ [...] Yes, the soldiers, they didn’t even try to hide it,” the agency’s interviewee said.

Refugee: Ukrainian Armed Forces Kill 12 Residents of Selidovo Who Were Collecting Water from the Only Well

DONETSK, December 29, 2024 — RIA Novosti

Ukrainian servicemen killed 12 residents of Selidovo in the DPR near the only well with drinking water, a refugee from the city, Elena Nikolaenko, told RIA Novosti.

"Everyone who stayed to live in Selidovo, went [to the sixth school as] there was drinking water only near the sixth school... Twelve people died there. They blew it up on purpose, they blew up the well," Elena said.

She emphasized that the whole city came to this place.

“My mother and I went to Dimitrovo in the morning. We were taken there by ambulance. When we arrived, they did not put us in intensive care, even though they were supposed to. Instead, they put us in a regular medical ward.

They resuscitated my mother, raised her blood sugar, everything stabilized, she was talking normally.

Out of relief, she started telling them that she is Russian, that her niece lives in Moscow, that she has connections, that she contacted volunteers, and that when the Russians come here, the volunteers will come to our address and evacuate us.

There was another woman lying in the ward whose son has been working as a medic in “Right Sector” since 2014. When her sons came to visit her, they would raise their arms and shout “Heil Hitler!” Her sons would come and shout “Heil Hitler!”, and she would answer them, also raising her arm: “Glory to Ukraine!”

After that, they basically stopped treating my mother altogether. During rounds, the doctor would come up to her, say “This is the left arm, this is the left leg,” then turn around and leave. Everyone else who had tied a yellow-and-blue ribbon around their arm was approached and treated. I had not put one on my mother.

I began demanding that she be transferred to intensive care. The doctor said intensive care was not needed and that they would give her an IV drip there instead. The son of the woman from “Right Sector,” whose call sign was “Tornado,” came to visit her and brought ampoules with him. I saw this myself on the second day, how he gave her the ampoules. Then that woman said, “Look, I have this medication.” The doctors said, “Alright.”

They put my mother on an IV with that medication, and my mother simply died. She started gasping for air, her tongue began to protrude, she could not breathe in. They suffocated her, basically. During the IV.

I am a churchgoing person. Since 2015, they have been telling me: “Suitcase, train station, Russia.” They tried to drive us out for any reason and no reason, constantly pressuring us.

I remember a year ago walking across the town square. There was a jeep standing there, and music was blasting across the entire square, “Deutschen Soldaten und Offizieren”… a German fascist march. They parked right on the square, turned it up to full volume, and played it.

Ukraine was forcing us out of the city. They would simply take children. If you didn’t evacuate, they would take your children. My godmother has four children, she’s from Krasnoye. They took her children and evacuated them to Vinnytsia. There they began to “eat them alive” to harass and abuse them. Now she has had to rent another new house just to survive. They keep hounding them. She finally found a place with a well, so she doesn’t have to run around the village as much, so fewer people see her, basically so she doesn’t have to walk through the village. They broke them down.

Everything was wrong with her in their eyes. And on top of that, she spoke Russian. Now she’s struggling alone with four children. If they hadn’t left Selidovo, the children would simply have been taken, and their fate would be unknown.

I went to visit a friend on Ostrovsky Street. There were mortars positioned there, on one side of the street and the other. Two mortars, one at each end. All day long they were firing at Novogrodovka. Twenty shots at Novogrodovka. Russian troops had already entered there.

Then they turned toward Voroshilovka, the private sector of Selidovo, and fired two shots. Then they turned back toward Novogrodovka and fired twenty shots again. Then they turned back and fired at Voroshilovka again. There were no Russian troops there.

On October 4, I went to Sergei’s birthday on Ostrovsky Street. Near us, about five houses away, Ukrainian Armed Forces moved into a house. A vehicle pulled up, stopped, they went inside. From there, drones began taking off carrying “carrots”, RPG grenades. They flew over us, toward the other side of Selidovo, toward Artem Street, and further down. Houses were simply being destroyed. There were no Russian troops there.

I remember that birthday clearly, three drones carrying RPG grenades flew directly over us. We were sitting there celebrating, and they were flying right over our heads. All day long they flew like that, almost until evening, destroying houses in Selidovo. One of my friends came home from work and found his house destroyed.

I was buying milk in Voroshilovka. An old man asked the Ukrainian soldiers: “Boys, when the Russians come, how will we live with the Russians?” One of them, the biggest one, turned around and said: “Grandpa, don’t be afraid of the Russians, be afraid of us.” He said it completely seriously. He said: “We have 600 guns. When we leave, we’ll wipe Selidovo out.”

They had been promising to wipe us out since 2015. Ukrainian soldiers personally told my mother twice, and told almost all the women: “When we leave, we’ll wipe Selidovo off the face of the earth.” But I stayed here so it wouldn’t be wiped out.

Near Shop No. 56 there’s a small store on the steps where people used to shop. One mine landed there once, no one was killed. A week later, people started gathering there again. I also felt the urge to go in the morning to buy mineral water, but I decided to go after noon. My godfather Alexey and my friend Gena went there to buy meat. Around ten in the morning, a mine landed and wounded four people.

A woman had her kidney torn out. Gena’s leg was pierced and his artery severed. A fragment remained inside him and was not removed. My godfather, Alexey Vanin, was hit there as well, his leg was pierced straight through and he was grazed on the head. Ukraine was firing. This was in September to October.

In September, near Revin Bridge, I went to feed my godfather’s dogs. Ukrainian soldiers lived three houses away. When they left, they simply threw a grenade into the house. The house caught fire and no one could put it out. It burned for two days because people were afraid it might be mined.

Or on Ostrovsky Street, they were sitting there. A soldier walked out from a house two buildings away from us. He walked off, and about three minutes later the house exploded.

Refugees from Peski and Pervomáysk were living in the children’s hospital. Ukrainian soldiers came, the AFU. They went through the entire building, checked where people were living, collected all the fire extinguishers, and left. About six hours later, the building was hit. The shot came from Ostrovsky Street, directly into the wing where the refugees were living. With no fire extinguishers left, there was nothing to put the fire out. Everyone who survived gathered what they could and fled deeper into Ukraine.

Russian troops were not there yet. They entered on Thursday around two in the afternoon.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian forces entered Building No. 19 in front of my building, and Building No. 17. They went door to door, breaking down doors and shooting everyone they found. Anyone who opened the door was shot immediately in the head.

An 80-year-old woman, a teacher who had worked her entire life, was shot straight in the head. Everyone there was shot in the head. Only three people survived in that building. One didn’t have time to open the door. Another barricaded himself inside and heard French and Ukrainian being spoken. A Frenchman said something, and a Ukrainian replied: “We don’t have time to break down doors anymore. We’ve already cleared it.” They left him and didn’t finish breaking in. That’s how he survived.

On Wednesday, someone walked through our courtyard shouting with a Georgian accent: “Is anyone alive? Is anyone alive?” He came up to my entrance. I was about to open the door and answer when he started shouting obscenities. Something felt wrong. I gathered everyone in the stairwell, six of us. What should we do, open or not? Everyone said: he’s swearing, we won’t open. We’ll wait for polite ones. That was Wednesday, meaning he was deliberately looking for civilians to kill.

In one house, a family of five with a child was taken outside into their garden and shot. The entire family was executed in the garden by Ukrainian soldiers.

A sniper was stationed here. They deployed snipers starting Tuesday. The sniper began shooting all the men… their bodies are still lying there. One man hid and ran into a shop; the sniper shot him inside the shop. His body is still lying there.

At the intersection further down, bodies were lying almost in a row. All were shot in the head. Around this house, all the men were shot by Ukrainian snipers, maybe mercenaries.

A son came from the lower street and saw his father lying there, shot dead. He ran home to get shovels [to bury his father]. While he was running, the sniper shot him in the head near “Donbass” [likely a local landmark or building/store/institute]. There were still two snipers there. He was shot straight in the head. He never got to bury his father.”

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