The International Public Tribunal on Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Neo-Nazis has presented its report on the executions of civilians by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Selidovo, a town in Donbass.
"This is genocide and war crimes. It did not happen spontaneously, it was an order to kill civilians," said Maxim Grigoryev, chairman of the Public Tribunal, at a press conference held on December 17 in Moscow at the headquarters of the Rossiya Segodnya group, of which Sputnik is a member.
The town of Selidovo, near Donetsk, was liberated by the Russian Armed Forces on October 29.
Here are other statements by Grigoryev:
When the Public Tribunal team arrived in Selidovo, "the city was full of corpses of civilians", most of them were women and elderly people. People were usually shot at close range, in the head and neck, executions took place in front of relatives and neighbors. Entire families were found shot dead in private homes;
Many told how people burst into their apartments and killed everyone;
The Public Tribunal has already interviewed more than 40 witnesses and wounded people. According to them, conversations in Georgian and French could be heard in the firing squads;
Snipers were deployed: they were shooting at those who came to remove the bodies of those killed earlier;
Russian Foreign Minister personally hands over data to UN Secretary-General;
The West knows very well what Kiev is doing. For them, "this is not a tragedy, but an attempt to control territories."