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1/ Details of the execution-style killings of an entire Ukrainian family of nine people point to Russian soldiers being the culprits. Two or three men are suspected of having carried out the massacre in the occupied town of Volnovakha, Donetsk region. ⬇️
2/ Nine members of the Kapkanets family, ranging in ages from 5 to 53 years old, were killed while sleeping in their house on the night of Friday 27 October / Saturday 28 October. The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel provides details, apparently sourced from the ongoing investigation.
3/ VChK-OGPU reports: "Absolutely everything indicates that well-equipped military personnel were responsible, and they used night vision devices and automatic rifles with silencers.
4/ "This is precisely what was reported to Moscow, where, apparently, they will try to hush up this tragedy...
According to the reconstructed picture of the massacre, the sleeping people were killed by 2-3 people with special military training and technological equipment.
According to the reconstructed picture of the massacre, the sleeping people were killed by 2-3 people with special military training and technological equipment.
5/ "The shooting was carried out from automatic weapons with silencers. Based on the accuracy of hits, the small number of misses and the lack of light in the house, forensic scientists conclude that the shooters were equipped with thermal imagers.
6/ "This was a clean-up job: all nine bodies are riddled with bullets and most of them were hit in the heads. Shots were fired at the doors and walls of the bathroom – the killers made sure to hit everyone who could be in the house.
7/ "Relatives who were allowed into the execution site noted that the usual order in the private house was not disturbed, and valuables remained in place – nothing was missing."
8/ The family had gathered to celebrate the 51st birthday of Tatyana Kapkanets. She was killed along with her husband, their sons Andrei and Alexander, and their sons' wives, children and brother.
9/ Russia's Investigative Committee (roughly the equivalent of the FBI) has opened an investigation. According to relatives, the police say the family "were killed by soldiers on motorcycles, and everyone was lying in their beds, meaning they did it while they were asleep."
10/ "The murder was committed by a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces", a neighbour says. "He didn’t share something with Natasha’s husband [Andrei]. The top brass immediately arrived and they started trying to hide everything, they told the neighbors to keep quiet."
11/ According to a neighbour, "Their mother-in-law had a birthday on Friday, and at night everyone was killed. Yesterday their relatives started looking for them, called the police, opened the house, and they were all killed."
12/ "Everyone was killed in the head. On the beds. The house was flooded with water, apparently to hide the evidence. All the neighbors say that the killers are military. No one has been detained, everyone is scared now." /end
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