Posted on 08/19/2014 3:15:10 PM PDT by free_life
Dozens of civilians, including women and children, were reportedly killed today after rebels hit vehicles carrying people trying to flee the ongoing fighting in the eastern Ukraine.
According to military spokesperson Anatoly Proshin a "powerful artillery strike" hit a convoy, which was carrying white flags and under the escort of the Ukrainian army.
"People were burned alive inside — they didn't have time to get out," he told Ukrainian news channel 112.ua.
Andriy Lysenko, spokesperson for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, called the act a "bloody crime" and the work of "bandits" using weaponry given to them by the Russian Federation.
Caught in the crossfire are terrified citizens trapped in the chaos. As fighting becomes increasingly fierce, hundreds of people are attempting to flee the area on a daily basis. Many of the cars traversing their way through the ever-shifting maze of checkpoints carry white signs reading "children" or "miners" — the workforce of the region's stable industry — in the hope it will save the passengers on board from artillery and sniper fire.
According to the figures released Friday by the UN, at least 344,000 have fled eastern Ukraine since fighting broke out, and a "conservative estimate" puts the civilian death toll at over 2,000 — a number that has more than doubled in two weeks alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.vice.com ...
Killing fleeing civilians is a quintessentially Russian behavior.
6,000 were murdered when a Russian sub torpedoed a passenger ship packed with mean, women and children people fleeing from the Red Army.
This video in Russian accompanied the news at ViceNews. Not sure who this is or what is being said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjAvnUa1Wak#t=13
The Russian terrorists got mad that their human shields tried to escape so they blew them up.
We are going to hear and see video of lot more of this terror once Ukraine has control of all their territory again.
The only successful sinking by a Russian sub in the whole war.
On Saturday, former miner and the new prime minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, Alexander Zakharchenko, said that 1,200 fighters “trained in Russia for four months” were being moved across the border. In a stark contradiction to Moscow’s denials of support in the form of arms, Zakharchenko, who leads the Russian-nationalist group Oplot, which predates the current conflict, also bragged that 150 piece of military hardware including 30 tanks were en route to the rebels.
Survivors of attacked civilian evacuation with white flag talk On Sunday morning at 9:40 a Ukrainian transport of civilians between Novosvitlivka and Khryashchuvatye in Lugansk region was attacked while carrying a white flag.
In this video survivors talk about it:
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.ca/2014/08/survivors-of-attacked-civilian.html
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