Wagner Group mercenaries murdered eight members of a family, including four children, denounces Ukraine

A family of eight, including four children, was shot dead in the town of Makiivka, in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Donetsk region, in an incident that Ukraine attributed to the mercenary command of the wagner group.

The complaint was made on Tuesday. Petro Andryushchenkoadviser to the mayor of Mariupol in exile since this city in the region of Donestk it was taken over by the Russians, local media outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported.

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According to this Ukrainian media, the Russian occupation authorities have claimed that the murderers in the family, which included a 1-year-old boy, were common criminals, although none of the versions has been able to be contrasted independently.

Andriushchenko indicated, in his Telegram account, that contrary to the version of the “Russian occupiers”, the “mass murder could have been committed by mercenaries from the Wagner Group”, a private paramilitary group under the command of the Kremlin.

In addition, and according to the municipal adviser, “This crime was openly racist in nature, as it was a Roma family that had been killed.. All the dead had bullet wounds to the head at point blank range.

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Andriushchenko, who did not specify the date on which the event occurred, added that the residents of Makiivka themselves reported that the crime had been committed by the military.

It added that “he and his team spent most of last night monitoring public sources and working with first-hand information and can state that this murder was committed by various monsters in military uniform.”

“But the occupiers will cover up the Russians’ crime, as they did all those that were committed in Mariupol,” a city now under Moscow control, he added.

andriushchenko suggested that these crimes may continue, since Russia has recruited “not human beings, but criminals, neo-nazis and other rubbish” to fight on the front lines, referring to the group of mercenaries and the prisoners that Moscow has freed to deploy in Ukraine.

Donetsk and Lugansk make up the region called Donbas, an area located in eastern Ukraine that, together with the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, were annexed by Russia last September after holding referendums that the international community does not recognize.

Despite this statement, Russia it has not been able to fully control militarily any of the four regions where it is engaged in severe combat with the Ukrainian Army.

Source: Elcomercio

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