Sunday 2 October 2022 01:03 AM Putin's chilling child massacre revealed as Russia faces its worst military ... trends now
Russia was this weekend facing its worst military battlefield defeat in 80 years, as chilling details emerged of fresh Russian atrocities against Ukrainian civilians.
Triumphant Ukrainian soldiers yesterday raised their country’s flag at the entrance to the strategically vital town of Lyman, just days after Vladimir Putin brazenly annexed four occupied Ukrainian regions.
Some of Putin’s troops are believed to be trapped in Lyman, a major logistics hub, after they were encircled by Ukraine’s lightning advance. They face having to surrender or fight their way out in a move that would probably see them suffer huge losses.
But the breakthrough in eastern Ukraine came as new reports of Russian atrocities emerged and fears grew that a humiliated Vladimir Putin could resort to using nuclear weapons. At least 24 civilians, including 13 children and a pregnant woman, were gunned down during a Russian attack on a road convoy, Ukraine claimed.
A volunteer places the body of killed people at a site of a civilian convoy, which Ukrainian State Security Service say was hit by a shelling of Russian troops amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the village of Kurylivka in Kharkiv region
Triumphant Ukrainian soldiers yesterday raised their country’s flag at the entrance to the strategically vital town of Lyman, just days after Vladimir Putin brazenly annexed four occupied Ukrainian regions
Ukraine troops showed reporters a group of vehicles riddled with bullet holes and several corpses in civilian clothes near the recently recaptured town of Kupiansk in north-east Ukraine.
‘Russians fired on civilians at close range,’ regional governor Oleg Synegubov said.
The region’s prosecutor’s office said Russian troops had opened fire on a convoy of seven cars as civilians attempted to flee the fighting.
‘The car queue was shot by the Russian army on September 25, when civilians were trying to evacuate,’ a statement from the office said. ‘Two cars have burnt completely with children and their parents inside.’ Meanwhile, in comments that will stoke fears of even further horrors, Ramzan Kadyrov, one of Putin’s henchmen and the head of Russia’s region of Chechnya, yesterday said Moscow should consider using a low-yield nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
In a message on Telegram criticising Russian commanders for abandoning Lyman, Kadyrov wrote: ‘In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear
