https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/18/i-can-do-whatever-i-want-to-you
En riktigt bra artikel angående ryska truppers beteende i byn Bogdanivka strax utanför Kiev.
Utdrag ifrån artikeln:
It only took half a day for Russian troops to turn violent towards village residents. “They went into my mother-in-law’s home,” said Oleg. “Thank God she was over at a neighbor’s house at the time. And I was watching it all happen from my own home.” At that moment, Oleg had guests hiding in his house: “There was my daughter, there was also my friend and his girlfriend… a 20-year-old girl. My son is 16. I saw how this could all end,” said Oleg. “And eventually the decision made itself. We had a hunting rifle — and my friend and I decided that if they came in, we would shoot.”
The main soldier in the group, Kristina told Meduza, seemed to be one named Mikhail Romanov. According to Kristina, he offered them his name himself and tried to swap contact information; the other soldiers referred to him as their commander. “Mikhail looked to be 30, but he was very emotional,” said Kristina. “He quickly started hitting on me — like a teenager. He said, ‘Ugh, if it weren’t for the war,’ and so on. He wouldn't leave me alone. He asked me to find him on social media so we could become friends.”
“Mikhail said he was a contract fighter, while the rest were conscripts, and that we’d gotten lucky with their group: ‘You have no idea what’s going on right now in other areas. The atrocities,” Kristina told Meduza. Indeed, right across the river, Russian soldiers were conducting “clean-up operations” in villages and cities such as Bucha.
...inside, said Kristina, Mikhail started crying, and said, ‘What, do you think I want all this? I’m sick, I’m psycho. You’re a crazy woman, evil. Why aren’t you afraid of anything? You think I’m not scared? We’re all going to get shot here, they’re going to gouge out our eyes. They just abandoned us.”
...two Russian soldiers in balaclavas showed up at 52-year-old Viktoria’s home at about 9:30 p.m. “I heard steps. Then some glass broke in the kitchen — it was hit by machine gun fire. My husband and I cried out that we didn’t have any weapons — and that there were children in the house.
The soldiers started herding us towards the pump room, but my husband made a fuss about how my mother-in-law is overweight and can’t get in the hole. The soldiers waved her aside and seemed to forget about her.”
The soldiers closed the hatch for two minutes, then opened it again, said Viktoria. “One of the shorter soldiers looked down, his gun in his hand, and asked, ‘Got any cigarettes?’ ‘No, I haven’t smoked in four days myself,’ said my husband — and the soldier shot at us. The bullet hit my husband in the arm. Then the same soldier said to the other one, ‘Fucking finish him,’ and the second one immediately shot my husband in the head.
