DR JADE McGLYNN

Jan 6, 2025

This is Vovchansk. About an hour’s drive from where I am, but while I am surrounded by lights and life, there is only death and destruction in Vovchansk.

I would recommend reading this investigation (in English) for anyone interested in knowing about the Russians who did this, ordinary guys, doing ordinary things, and then going to wipe a (very lovely) town off the face of the earth.

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Juraj Krivošík

Executive Director at SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center, Prague

SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center
University of Sheffield, UK

This is not a surface of the Moon, this is not an archive photo from the World War II., neither a picture from an apocalyptic movie.

👉 This is a result of russian “visit” to Ukraine.

✋ And russia threatens to “visit” other countries as well. (It already does with various “operations”).

We better #ArmUkraine to stop them and to ensure #peace in #Europe.

‘STORMING CITIES AND HOUSES IS OUR ELEMENT’: WHO IS DESTROYING VOVCHANSK AND KILLING CIVILIANS

Каріна Бугайченко

7 червня 2024

For almost a month now, the Russian army has been storming and shelling the city of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, 4 kilometres from the border with the Russian aggressor state. The Russian military intensified their attacks in this area on the morning of 10 May. For the second time since the start of the full-scale invasion, local residents had to leave their homes, which now look like a burning wreck. Eventually, Ukrainian defenders pushed back the attackers and now control 70% of Vovchansk, with fierce fighting continuing on the outskirts. Fifty people, mostly elderly, remain in the part of the city that is occupied by Russia, and the Kharkiv police call them prisoners. Civilians suffer daily from abuse by Russian soldiers and even point-blank shootings.

Slidstvo.Info journalists have identified the alleged perpetrators of the civilian killings and destruction of Vovchansk. The video has English subtitles.

IF YOU DON’T OBEY, YOU’LL BE SHOT’

“You need to understand that while civilians are under occupation, we cannot share all the photos and videos that testify to war crimes in Vovchansk,” says Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the Kharkiv Police Investigation Department.

Serhiy Bolvinov, Head of the Kharkiv Police Investigation Department

Law enforcement officers do not know for sure what is happening in the occupied part of the recently cosy border town in Kharkiv region. Most young people evacuated from Vovchansk. For those of the older generation who did not have time or refused to leave, it is rare to find a smartphone.

So it’s not hard for the Russian military to find out who posted the latest video or photo from there. The people who remained on the other side of the fighting are effectively in Russian captivity, Bolvinov adds. They have no choice but to wait for release, as the invaders prohibit evacuation to the territory controlled by Ukraine.