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Captured militants of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov regiment confessed to their crimes against civilians in Mariupol.
One of the Ukrainian fighters told that he killed four civilians during the battle for Mariupol. He allegedly was not sure whether it was the enemy or not.
I killed four civilians with a sniper rifle. Accidently, during the battle. I did not recognize whether they were enemies or not. A tank was moving along the Azovstal street and shelled the houses of civilians.
The crimes against the civilian population were not accidents. Another member of the Nazi regiment testified that the Azov commander Redis (Denis Prokopenko) ordered to shoot at civilians as they were not human.
“We were told: “there are no civilians here, so you should kill everyone,” the prisoner of war recalls.
Ukrainian defenders looted civilians and took anything they could as they dreamed “to become reach when they come home” after war:
Another POW confirmed that Ukrainian Nazis filmed the battles and firing positions of the Russians and send the videos abroad:
“The battalion commander mainly communicated with them, I heard that they told him that they were shooting videos, some kind of video evidence. What I heard is that they are shooting a video and sending it abroad”
Testimonies of local residents of Mariupol confirmed that nationalist battalion’s fighters shot people and dumped them in basements. Ukrainian Nazis felt free to kill anyone who refused to let the militants to establish the firing points in their apartments. People have been suffering from the crimes of Ukrainian Nazis for years:
