A Ukrainian family of nine, including two young children, was executed in cold blood while they slept in a Russian-occupied city, leading to the arrest of two Russian soldiers.
The mass murder occurred on Saturday night in Volnovakha, an industrial city located between the Moscow-controlled cities of Donetsk and Melitopol.
The soldiers, who have not been identified, are said to have been drunk when they allegedly shot dead the entire Kapkanets family after the victims refused to give up their home so a Russian military unit could move in, according to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office of the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
The killers had used machine guns fitted with silencers to methodically kill family members one by one in their beds, Russian media reported.
The victims have been identified as the head of the family, Eduard Kapkanets, 53, and his wife, Tatiana, whose 51st birthday the family had celebrated a few hours before the massacre.
One of the photographs from the scene showed the kitchen table still laden with leftover food from dinner and several bouquets of flowers placed in vases in a corner.
Distressing photographs released by Ukrainian officials show two young children and a woman dead in their bed after a family of nine was massacred in Ukraine. @nevzorovtv / Telegram
The couple’s son, Andreij, 31, and his wife, Natalia, 29, were also killed, along with their children, Anastasia, 9, and Nikita, 5, and Natalia, 20. older brother, Dmitry Khotinskiy.
The massacre also claimed the lives of Andrei’s younger brother, Alexander, 25, and the brother’s wife, Ekaterina, 27.
Two of the victims were executed by gunmen identified as Russian soldiers while they embraced each other while sleeping. DSHRG/Telegram Andreij Kapkanets, 31, and his wife Natalia, 29, were massacred in the family home in Volnovakha, Ukraine, on Saturday night. . @ostorozhno_novosti / Telegram
Heartbreaking photographs released Monday by the prosecutor’s office showed a bullet-riddled couple holding each other for the last time in their blood-soaked bed.
Another heartbreaking image showed a boy and girl lying motionless in bed next to a dead woman, all still wrapped up under blankets, with blood splatters decorating the wall above them.
“There is no doubt that the bloody hands of the Russians are involved,” wrote Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets on his Telegram channel.
Among the victims were the children of Andreij and Natalia Kapkanets, 9-year-old Anastasia (right) and 5-year-old Nikita (left). DSHRG/Telegram The gunmen identified as Russian soldiers allegedly broke into the family’s home just hours after they had celebrated a birthday.@nevzorovtv/Telegram The gunmen allegedly used machine guns with silencers to silently murder the family members one by one. @nevzorovtv / Telegram
Russian investigators in annexed eastern Ukraine said late Monday they had detained soldiers suspected of carrying out the Volnovakha bloodbath. They face murder charges punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The alleged gunmen were said to have come from an unspecified region of Russia’s Far East and the motive appeared to be some sort of personal conflict. Lubinets claimed that the suspects were Chechens.
Bullet casings are seen scattered on the floor of the Kapkanets family home after the massacre. @nevzorovtv / Telegram
Earlier this month, Eduard Kapkanets was approached by a group dressed in uniform and carrying weapons, who demanded “that the family who lived there leave the house to convert it into a residence for one of the units of the Russian army,” the statement said. the prosecution. read.
When Kapkanets refused to hand over his house, the soldiers allegedly “threatened his relatives with physical violence and left.”
A few days later, the military returned and “shot the nine members of the family, who at that time were already asleep,” the prosecutor’s office reported.
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