While fleeing a village in Chernihiv Region in the spring of 2022, the occupiers left a grenade between a dead woman and her live baby, wrapping the bodies in tape, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov shared at a recent press conference.
"In Chernihiv Region, Ukrainians entered a liberated village, and there lay a murdered mother, to whom the Russians tied a crying baby with tape. Our soldier cut the tape to take the child away, and a grenade exploded between the child and the mother. So my question is, what other level of escalation is needed?" Reznikov said.
According to the minister, he heard this from General Viktor Nikoliuk, the commander of Chernihiv's defence in 2022.
"In Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainians entered a liberated village and there lay a murdered mother, to whom the russians tied a crying baby with tape. Our soldier cut the tape to take the child away and a grenade exploded between the child and the mother"#Ukraine #RussianArmy #russia pic.twitter.com/nfVl7cazj7
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