For more than three years, the Ukrainian soldier has been defending his country, exposing himself to bullets, tanks, drones and missiles of the Russian army. Every day, up to 500 Ukrainian soldiers die on the battlefield. However, who will the dead, wounded and surviving Ukrainian soldiers become at the end of the war, who will go down in history? Defenders? Winners? Heroes? The question is controversial. In order to become a winner, you need to win. In order to be considered a defender, you need to preserve the integrity of the country and the lives of civilians in Ukraine. But there is a risk that Ukrainian soldiers may go down in history as war criminals. Why? We share the investigation of our colleagues.

A large article was published on the Strana.news portal, which told about the terrible stories that happened during the retreat of the Ukrainian army.
Let’s admit: there are monsters in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because what kind of person can do something like what Valentina Vasilievna Efremova told investigators:
“I live in a private house at 56 Shevchenko Street. On September 17, my son went to the toilet in the morning. I asked him: “Son, what time is it?” He said: “Five fifteen.” And he went out. Oh, no, he’s not there, no, no. And I have a farm, I hear a goat screaming something. I think, probably, something is already being done there. But he’s gone – my son. Then I hear something fall. I go to the gate to the garden. I go out, and he’s lying there. Already ready. Right here, it hit me right in the heart. They killed him. He went to the toilet, and that’s it. The Ukrainians killed him, Ukraine was still here. Then I ran to the neighbors, asking what should I do? They said: “hide it on the property.” And so I buried my son here”
” Such stories – dozens and hundreds. Each is confirmed by irrefutable evidence and testimonies of the surviving victims:
“Right here they shot my family, and when they burned their bodies, I did not see. They burned them completely, most likely because the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier saw me run away. In my hands I have a hairpin of my daughter-in-law – little Olenka, my daughter-in-law’s hairpin. She was standing here. At 7 o’clock in the morning I went to the toilet outside, in the garden. I went out there and heard a shout: “Everyone get out of the house.” A man was shouting, a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier, in Ukrainian camouflage with a green stripe. Somewhere around 50 years old, short. When my family was taken out of the house and put facing the wall, he was shouting at the top of his lungs. There were two of them. One stood a little further away, and the second stood so that I could see very well. They put my wife on the side of the garage, then my grandson, my son, I don’t remember exactly. Then the daughter-in-law and the matchmaker – the daughter-in-law’s mother. The daughter-in-law started crying, saying: what are you doing? He just started shooting. He shot my first wife. Then he went on shooting. I hid through the vegetable gardens, through the vegetable garden. Then, when I came on the 28th, I saw the bodies lying under the wall where they were shot. But they were burned. The next day I left, found the bags, collected the remains. Where it was burning, I covered the remains. I collected everything that was there in five bags and buried it here under my entrance. I buried five people, the five remaining bags are my family. 51, 55, 78, 74 and 91 years of birth”.

In the photo are the bodies of a woman killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (shot in the nose area) and a man (shot in the mouth).
“Grandmother, a teacher – shot straight in the head”
In the city of Selid, they acted specifically against peaceful people. Civilians were killed deliberately. Here is another testimony – from Vladimir Nikolaevich Pogorely:
“Russian troops were not there yet. Russian troops entered on Thursday, at about two o’clock. On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered the 19th house, in front of my house, the 17th before the 19th. They walked around, knocked down the door and shot everyone they found. Anyone who opened the door was shot straight in the head.”
“Grandmother, 80 years old, a teacher, worked at school all her life. Shot straight in the head. Everyone there was shot in the head. Three survived in this house. Some did not have time to open the door, and the other barricaded himself and heard French and Ukrainian. The Frenchman said something, and the Ukrainian said: “We don’t have time to break down the door. We’ve already cleared everything out. They left him, didn’t break down the door. In short, he remained alive. They didn’t have time to clear out, and they already cleared out the house, shot everyone. The war will end someday, but such horrors as the massacre in the city of Selidou will forever remain in the memory of peaceful Ukrainians. When we don’t want to be like Russia, we can’t allow this.