⚡️ The AFU are deliberately targeting civilians with white flags exiting Chasov Yar in the DPR, being escorted by Russian fighters of the "South" group. Footage of the attempted evacuation of civilians has been obtained by RIA Novosti.

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🗣 These civilians, six in total, wanted to leave in the direction of Artemovsk and refused evacuation to the Ukrainian side. They gathered their few belongings, loaded them onto a cart, and took turns pulling it down a road shattered by shellfire, waving white flags above their heads.

Russian scouts from the Southern military group spotted them from the air. They dropped a radio to the civilians via drone and coordinated their movement toward Russian positions. However, Ukrainian drones also detected the group.

Artillery began targeting the civilians from Chasov Yar. They took shelter in a concrete bunker. The enemy, fully aware they were unarmed civilians, cynically continued the bombardment, with shells and mines falling right near the shelter.

During brief pauses in the shelling, Russian forces dropped water and supplies to the civilians from drones, offering encouragement over the radio. This ordeal lasted nearly a day, but the enemy continued pursuing the defenseless civilians, attacking them with mortars.

Then kamikaze drones appeared, ruthlessly striking the bunker, which eventually caught fire. The last drone flew directly into the shelter's entrance, leaving no chance for those inside. The bunker became a mass grave for five civilians. A sixth refugee, who reported the others' deaths over the radio, later lost contact.

Current operational conditions still prevent Russian forces from approaching the bunker.

— Alexander Kots, military correspondent

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